Reproductive Realities in Modern China

Birth Control and Abortion, 1911–2021

Sarah Mellors Rodriguez (Missouri State University)

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English

Cambridge University Press
07 December 2023

Asian history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Gender studies: women; Birth control, contraception, family planning

Series: Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China

Lasting from 1979 to 2015, China's One Child Policy is often remembered as one of the most ambitious social engineering projects to date and considered emblematic of global efforts to regulate population growth during the twentieth century. Drawing on a rich combination of archival research and oral history, Sarah Mellors Rodriguez analyses how ordinary people, particularly women, navigated China's shifting fertility policies before and during the One Child Policy era. She examines the implementation and reception of these policies and reveals that they were often contradictory and unevenly enforced, as men and women challenged, reworked, and co-opted state policies to suit their own needs. By situating the One Child Policy within the longer history of birth control and abortion in China, Reproductive Realities in Modern China exposes important historical continuities, such as the enduring reliance on abortion as contraception and the precariousness of state control over reproduction.

By: Sarah Mellors Rodriguez (Missouri State University)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Weight: 1.560kg
ISBN: 9781009011570
ISBN 10: 100901157X
Series: Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China
Pages: 262
Publication Date: 07 December 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sarah Mellors Rodriguez is Assistant Professor of History at Missouri State University.

Reviews for Reproductive Realities in Modern China: Birth Control and Abortion, 1911–2021

'Centering women's embodied experience, Mellors brings a feminist analytic to an arena in which women shoulder an undue burden. From the late nineteenth century through the present and across three state regimes, women's wellbeing has consistently taken a back seat to nationalism, racial fitness, social stability and industrial production.' Nicole Elizabeth Barnes, Duke University 'Mellors Rodriguez brings refreshing insight into the complexities and variations in attitudes, policies and practices of birth control and abortion in twentieth-century China. Offering a nuanced perspective through personal interviews and archival research, this book will change what you think you know about China and its population policies.' Tina Phillips Johnson, author of Childbirth in Republican China: Delivering Modernity