Telling Their Stories: Puerto Rican Women and Abortion

by Jean Peterman

Abortion and the right of a woman to control her fertility cross boundaries of race, ethnicity, and social class. In this revealing and in-depth study, Jean P. Peterman focuses on a group of Puerto Rican women in Chicago whose decisions about abortion highlight the contradictions 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367305283
• ISBN13: 9780367305284
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"