Telling Their Stories: Puerto Rican Women and Abortion

ISBN-13: 9780367305284 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 128 str.

Jean Peterman

Opis

This book focuses on a group of Puerto Rican women in Chicago whose decisions about abortion, highlighting the contradictions between the sexually conservative ethnic and religious beliefs of this community. It explains how cultures create and support their social worlds.

Spis treści

Introduction -- The Meaning of Abortion -- Experiences and Beliefs About Relationships -- Cultural Stories and Collective Stories -- The Cultural Story and the Decision to Get an Abortion -- Abortion as a Moral Passage to a Collective Story -- Conclusion: Puerto Rican Women Creating a Collective Story -- Appendixes -- Looking for Members of a Hidden Population -- Interview Guide -- Characteristics of Interviewees

O autorze

Jean P. Peterman is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Philosophy at Chicago State University