Reproductive Realities in Modern China

'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 'Providing excellent syntheses of recent English and Chinese scholarship on reproduction, gender, sexuality, and demography, this informative book also makes itself a highly useful guide for new students of modern China. … Recommended.' L. Ma, CHOICE 'A rich and fascinating overview of the continuities and changes in birth control practices and policies over the course of modern China's twentieth- and twenty-first-century history. This study will be of great interest to scholars and graduate students specializing in gender, science and technology, and reproductive regimes around the world.' Michelle T. King, Twentieth-Century China