Abortion and the right of a woman to control her fertility cross boundaries of race, ethnicity and social class. This study focuses on a group of Puerto Rican women in Chicago whose decisions about abortion highlight the contradiction between the sexually conservative ethnic and religious beliefs of this community and the fact that Latina women (including Puerto Rican women) have abortions at a rate one-and-a-half times as high as non-Latinas.
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
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978-0-8133-8991-2 (9780813389912)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
The meaning of abortion; experiences and beliefs about relationships; cultural stories and collective stories; the cultural story and the decision to get an abortion; abortion as a moral passage to a collective story; conclusion - Puerto Rican women creating a collective story.
