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"Parce qu’ils avaient laissé mourir faute de soins leur quatrième enfant, Ginette et Claude Bac furent condamnés à sept ans de réclusion par la cour d’assises de la Seine en juin 1954. Cassé pour vice de forme, le jugement fut ramené lors d’un second procès à deux années, couvertes par leur détention. La gynécologue Marie-Andrée Lagroua Weill-Hallé y témoigna en leur faveur, ce qui fut déterminant. Quelques mois plus tard, elle fondait la Maternité heureuse qui devint le Planning familial. De l’affaire des époux Bac, toujours mentionnée en quelques lignes dans les ouvrages d’histoire pour avoir été un facteur déclenchant des mouvements en faveur de la contraception, on ne savait presque rien. Danièle Voldman et Annette Wieviorka font le récit du drame vécu par ce jeune couple ouvrier de Saint-Ouen, des « gens sans importance » que des grossesses rapprochées accablèrent. Elles racontent aussi comment les partisans de la légalisation de la contraception se sont emparés de ce désolant fait divers, devenu fait de société. Les déclarations de Marie-Andrée Lagroua Weill-Hallé au procès ont brisé un tabou, ouvert une brèche qui a libéré la parole des femmes et mis au jour leurs souffrances. L’opinion en a été bouleversée. Le débat public ne s’est plus refermé jusqu’au vote de la loi Neuwirth en 1967, une révolution dans l’histoire des femmes."

Birth control --- Contraception --- Reproductive rights

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"As the bearers of the next generation in one of the richest countries in the world, the social status of Qatari women is closely linked to their ability to have children. Women are expected to reflect the cultural and religious values attached to motherhood, and not having children puts women in a potentially vulnerable position. But Qatari women must also play an essential role in reflecting the country as a centre of Arab modernity, availing themselves of the new opportunities in work, politics and public life. This book explores the changing role of women in Qatari society and analyses how Qatari women navigate the competing expectations placed upon them. Based on original interviews with pregnant women and women who have experienced miscarriage - as well as interviews with doctors, religious scholars and family members - the book reveals how socio-cultural forces shape the way miscarriage is framed and experienced. It also reveals how intimate reproductive events are deeply entangled with broader societal and political issues. In exploring the themes of reproduction, motherhood and family relationships, this unique study sheds light on the values and beliefs circulating in Qatari society and how these are mapped on to women's bodies."--

Reproductive health --- Reproductive rights --- Women --- Social conditions --- Qatar --- Social conditions.

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Abortion. --- Abortion, Induced --- Feticide --- Foeticide --- Induced abortion --- Pregnancy termination --- Termination of pregnancy --- Birth control --- Fetal death --- Obstetrics --- Reproductive rights --- Surgery

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From 1928 to 1972, the Alberta Sexual Sterilization Act, Canada’s lengthiest eugenic policy, shaped social discourses and medical practice in the province. Sterilization programs—particularly involuntary sterilization programs—were responding both nationally and internationally to social anxieties produced by the perceived connection between mental degeneration and heredity. Psychiatry and the Legacies of Eugenics illustrates how the emerging field of psychiatry and its concerns about inheritable conditions was heavily influenced by eugenic thought and contributed to the longevity of sterilization practices in Western Canada.Using institutional case studies, biographical accounts, and media developments from Western Canada and Europe, contributors trace the impact of eugenics on nursing practices, politics, and social attitudes, while investigating the ways in which eugenics discourses persisted unexpectedly and remained mostly unexamined in psychiatric practice. This volume further extends historical analysis into considerations of contemporary policy and human rights issues through a discussion of disability studies as well as compensation claims for victims of sterilization. In impressive detail, contributors shed new light on the medical and political influences of eugenics on psychiatry at a key moment in the field’s development.With contributions by Ashley Barlow, W. Mikkel Dack, Diana Mansell, Guel A. Russell, Celeste Tuong Vy Sharpe, Henderikus J. Stam, Douglas Wahlsten, Paul J. Weindling, Robert A. Wilson, Gregor Wolbring, and Marc Workman.

Eugenics --- History --- Homiculture --- Race improvement --- Euthenics --- Heredity --- Involuntary sterilization --- sterilization --- Psychology --- mental health --- medical experimentation --- reproductive rights --- institutionalization --- health care --- newgenics --- policy

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Abortion --- Abortion services --- Reproductive rights --- Women's health services --- Customer services. --- Reproductive rights. --- Law and legislation --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Government policy --- Law and legislation. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Government policy. --- Planned Parenthood Federation of America --- Planned Parenthood Federation of America. --- United States.