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Wikipedia. March 2012. “Sterilization (medicine)”. Wikipedia.com. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterilization_(medicine). Retrieved May 3, 2012 from the World Wide Web.
Feminist Women’s Health Center. March 2012.”Female Sterilization – Tubal Litigation”. FWHC.com. http://www.fwhc.org/birth-control/tubalig.htm. Retrieved May 3, 2012 from the World Wide Web.
Planned Parenthood. 2012. “Sterilization for Women (Tubal Sterilization)”. Planned Parenthood.org. http://www.plannedparenthood.org/health-topics/birth-control/sterilization-women-4248.htm. Retrieved May 3, 2012 from the World Wide Web.
Bedsider. “Birth Control Methods”. Bedsider.org. http://bedsider.org/methods. Retrieved May 3, 2012 from the World Wide Web.
Iris López. Matters of Choice: Puerto Rican Women’s Struggle for Reproductive Freedom. Rutgers UP, 2008. Print.
López, Iris O. “Agency and Constraint: Sterilization and Reproductive Freedom Among Puerto Rican Women in New York.” Situated Lives: Gender and Culture in Everyday Life. Ed. Louise Lamphere, Helena Ragoné, and Patricia Zavella. New York: Routledge, 1997. 157-74. Print.
News Analysis
Center for Reproductive Rights. Forcibly Sterilized Woman Files International Case against Chile. Reproductive Rights. Center for Reproductive Rights, 3 Feb. 2009. Web. <http://reproductiverights.org/en/press-room/forcibly-sterilized-woman-files-international-case-against-chile>. Retrieved 2 March 2012 from the World Wide Web.
Chamberlain, Pam, and Jean Hardisty. “Reproducing Patriarchy: Reproductive Rights Under Siege.” The Public Eye Magazine Summer 2000. The Public Eye. Political Research Associates. Web. <http://www.publiceye.org/magazine/v14n1/Reproducing%20Patriarchy%20TOC.html>Retrieved 2 March 2012 from the World Wide Web.
Hooton, Angela. “Demanding Reproductive Justice for Latinas.” Center for American Progress. Retrieved 2 March 2012 from the World Wide Web: http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2004/04/b48006.html
Krase, Katherine. “Sterilization Abuse.” National Women’s Health Network (Jan.-Feb. 1996). Our Bodies, Ourselves. Boston Women’s Health Collective. Web. <http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/book/companion.asp?id=31&compID=55&page=1>. Retrieved 2 March 2012 from the World Wide Web.
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Morrison, Jill. 4 April 2011. “Religious Puerto Ricans Often Choose Sterilization Over Birth Control Pill.” Opposing Views. Retrieved 1 March 2012: http://www.opposingviews.com/i/religious-puerto-ricans-often-choose-sterilization-over-birth-control-pill
Pérez, Miriam. 2 February 2011. “Worried About Women of Color? Thanks, But No Thanks, Anti-Choicers. We’ve Got It Covered.” Reproductive Health Reality Check. Retrieved 2 March 2012 from the World Wide Web: http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2010/02/24/worried-about-women-color-thanks-thanks-antichoicers-weve-covered
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Career Biography
The City College of New York. “Directory Profile Details”. CCUNY.cuny.edu. http://www1.ccny.cuny.edu/facultystaff/directory/profile-record.cfm?customel_datapageid_1237265=1238620. Retrieved April 1, 2012 from the World Wide Web.
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