Fresh winds in Beijing: Chinese feminists speak out on the one-child policy and women's lives

Signs

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 846-886

  Greenhalgh, Susan ^a  

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ARTICLE; ASIAN; CHINA; CONTRACEPTION; ECONOMICS; ETHICS; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; FEMINISM; GOVERNMENT; HISTORY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; POLICY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; PUBLIC HEALTH; REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL CONTROL; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHINA; CONTRACEPTION; FAMILY PLANNING POLICY; FEMINISM; GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; POPULATION CONTROL; POPULATION GROWTH; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC POLICY; REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL CONTROL, FORMAL; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WOMEN;

EID: 0001248234     PISSN: 00979740     EISSN: 15456943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/495630     Document Type: Article

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