{"title":"\"There Was No 'Family Planning Movement,' There Was Just Us\": The Asociación Pro-Salud Maternal and Birth Control in 1960s Mexico","authors":"Stephanie Baker Opperman","doi":"10.1353/jowh.2022.0015","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Beginning in 1958, Dr. Edris Rice-Wray established the Asociación Pro-Salud Maternal (Association for Maternal Health) clinics in Mexico where low-income women could explore family planning options. Using transnational collaborations to fund and supply contraception across the US-Mexico border, the asociación created space for women to claim their reproductive rights. The subsequent increased pressure from urban women, their priests, and their doctors for access to birth control forced the state to accommodate their needs by changing national family planning laws in 1974. This article examines the transnational work of Rice-Wray to reveal the political, religious, social, and economic challenges to birth control experienced by women in mid-twentieth-century Mexico.","PeriodicalId":45948,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Womens History","volume":"34 1","pages":"118 - 97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Womens History","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jowh.2022.0015","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:Beginning in 1958, Dr. Edris Rice-Wray established the Asociación Pro-Salud Maternal (Association for Maternal Health) clinics in Mexico where low-income women could explore family planning options. Using transnational collaborations to fund and supply contraception across the US-Mexico border, the asociación created space for women to claim their reproductive rights. The subsequent increased pressure from urban women, their priests, and their doctors for access to birth control forced the state to accommodate their needs by changing national family planning laws in 1974. This article examines the transnational work of Rice-Wray to reveal the political, religious, social, and economic challenges to birth control experienced by women in mid-twentieth-century Mexico.
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Journal of Women"s History is the first journal devoted exclusively to the international field of women"s history. It does not attempt to impose one feminist "line" but recognizes the multiple perspectives captured by the term "feminisms." Its guiding principle is a belief that the divide between "women"s history" and "gender history" can be, and is, bridged by work on women that is sensitive to the particular historical constructions of gender that shape and are shaped by women"s experience.
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