Negotiating Acceptability of the IUD: Contraceptive Technology, Women's Bodies, and Reproductive Politics
In this dissertation, I deconstruct the commonly held assumption that the intrauterine device (IUD) is an unsafe and/or obsolete contraceptive method that has been used mostly to impose population control on women in developing countries. Simultaneously, I explore the changing meaning of the device...
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Virginia Tech
2011
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/11182 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05182004-114108 |