Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "abortion"
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Essays on the Economics of the Family
(2012-07-25)This dissertation contains three essays analyzing how families form and how family members interact. The first chapter studies and connects recent trends in age at marriage and divorce. The second chapter looks within ... -
Planning the American Family: The Politics of Government Family Planning Programs from the Great Society to the New Right
(2013-09-04)This dissertation examines the creation and development of the United States government's Title X family planning program from 1965 to 1988. It argues that Title X became controversial when its supporters shifted their ... -
Sociological Description and the Forensics of Sexuality
(Oxford University Press, 2018-01-11)This chapter analyses how typologies of deviant female sexuality shaped medico-legal narratives of abortion in colonial eastern India. I argue that forensic medicine shaped normative understandings of Indian women through ...