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Reproducing Inequities: Poverty and the Politics of Population in Haiti
By M. Catherine Matemowska
248 pages
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- Rutgers University Press
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Synopsis
Residents of Haiti face a grim reality of starvation, violence, lack of economic opportunity, and minimal health care. For years, aid organizations have unsuccessfully attempted to alleviate the problems by creating health and family planning centers, including one modern (and, by local standards, luxurious) clinic of Cité Soleil.
In Reproducing Inequities, M. Catherine Maternowska argues that we too easily overlook the political dynamics that shape choices about family planning ....
Residents of Haiti face a grim reality of starvation, violence, lack of economic opportunity, and minimal health care. For years, aid organizations have unsuccessfully attempted to alleviate the problems by creating health and family planning centers, including one modern (and, by local standards, luxurious) clinic of Cité Soleil.
In Reproducing Inequities, M. Catherine Maternowska argues that we too easily overlook the political dynamics that shape choices about family planning. Through a detailed study of the attempt to provide modern contraception in the community of Cité Soleil, Maternowska demonstrates the complex interplay between local and global politics that so often thwarts well-intended policy initiatives.
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Table of contents
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- Reproducing Inequities i
- Title Page iii
- Contents vii
- Foreword - Unraveling Fertility and Power ix
- Acknowledgements xvii
- Acronyms xxi
- Reproducing Inequities xxiii
- 1: Introduction - When Pigs Feasted and People Starved 1
- 2: Interpretations of Reproduction - Demography, Anthropology, and the Political Economy of Fertility 22
- 3: Gender and Survival - Living on the Edge in Cité Soleil 44
- 4: The Family Planning Center - A Clinic in Conflict 75
- 5: A Community Consumed - Fire, Politics, and Health Care 103
- 6: The Political Economy of International Aid - Grounding Ethnography, Engaging History 133
- 7: Health in Haiti - Producing Equity 158
- Epilogue 180
- Appendix 183
- Reproducing Inequities i
- Title Page iii
- Contents vii
- Foreword - Unraveling Fertility and Power ix
- Acknowledgements xvii
- Acronyms xxi
- Reproducing Inequities xxiii
- 1: Introduction - When Pigs Feasted and People Starved 1
- 2: Interpretations of Reproduction - Demography, Anthropology, and the Political Economy of Fertility 22
- 3: Gender and Survival - Living on the Edge in Cité Soleil 44
- 4: The Family Planning Center - A Clinic in Conflict 75
- 5: A Community Consumed - Fire, Politics, and Health Care 103
- 6: The Political Economy of International Aid - Grounding Ethnography, Engaging History 133
- 7: Health in Haiti - Producing Equity 158
- Epilogue 180
- Appendix 183
- Notes 185
- Bibliography 193
- Index 211
- About the Author 223