Negotiating Reproductive Rights : Women's Perspectives Across Countries and Cultures

How do women across diverse countries, cultures and situations develop a sense of entitlement or self-determination with regard to their position as reproducers?This book grows out of The International Reproductive Rights Research Action Group's four years of collaborative research and analysis in seven countries: Brazil, Egypt, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, Philippines and the United States.

Based on interviews with hundreds of women in both urban and rural settings, different age groups and diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds, the book asks when, whether and how women express a sense of entitlement or self-determination in everyday decisions about childbearing, work, marriage, fertility control and sexual relations.