The politics of reproductive benefits: U.S. insurance coverage of contraceptive and infertility treatments.
The writers argue that recent alterations in access to contraceptives and infertility treatments in the state of Illinois, and across the U.S., have heightened the class cleavages in access to reproductive health care benefits in the U.S., and they attempt to uncover how this unequal distribution ca...
| Publicado en: | Gender & Society Vol. 11; pp. 8 - 31 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
February 1997
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