A summary of articles concerned with population control and reproductive rights.
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Grewal, I and Kaplan, C. (2002) An Introduction to Women's Studies: Gender in a Transnational World. McGraw-Hill; New York. A summary of articles concerned with population control and reproductive rights. It should be noted that this book is an American one, and hence the focus and examples used are American. This summary follows the book in this regard, in that it too focuses on the United States. However, a more in-depth analysis on fertility control would have to examine the position of women within different societies across the globe. This summary examines three articles from the above-mentioned book, and these take very different approaches to reproduction rights and population control. The first one looks t the historical battle and political ideas that surrounded the build-up to the Roe v. Wade (1973) Supreme Court decision. The second article examines population control from a different perspective, in that it considers forced sterilizations, which occurred...

