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Record Nr.

UNINA9910164864503321

Autore

Hartmann Betsy

Titolo

Reproductive rights and wrongs : the global politics of population control / / Betsy Hartmann ; foreword by Helen Rodriguez-Trias

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, Illinois : , : Haymarket Books, , 2016

ISBN

1-60846-734-1

Edizione

[Third edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 pages)

Disciplina

363.96

Soggetti

Reproductive rights

Birth control

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Reproductive Rights and Wrongs -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction: Whose Choice? -- Part One: THE REAL POPULATION PROBLEM -- 1. Security and Survival -- 2. The Malthusian Orthodoxy -- 3. A Womb of One's Own -- 4. The Plan Behind Family Planning -- 5. The Indonesian "Success" and the Kenyan "Failure" -- Part Two: POPULATION CONTROL COMES OF AGE -- 6. Birth of an Ideology -- 7. The Population Establishment Today -- 8. Building a "Consensus" for Cairo and Beyond -- 9. China-"Gold Babies" and Disappearing Girls -- Part Three: CONTRACEPTIVE CONTROVERSIES -- 10. Shaping Contraceptive Technology -- 11. Hormonal Contraceptives and the IUD -- 12. Bangladesh-Survival of the Richest -- 13. Sterilization and Abortion -- 14. Barrier Methods, Natural Family Planning, and Future Directions -- Part Four: THE WAY FORWARD -- 15. The Light at the End of the Demographic Tunnel -- 16. The Population Framework: Inside or Outside? -- Appendix -- Notes -- About the Author.

Sommario/riassunto

With a new prologue by the author, this feminist classic is an important gateway into the controversial topic of population for students, activists, researchers and policymakers. It challenges the myth of overpopulation, uncovering the deeper roots of poverty, environmental degradation and gender inequalities. With vivid case studies, it explores how population control programs came to be promoted by powerful



governments, foundations and international agencies as an instrument of Cold War development and security policy. Mainly targeting poor women, these programs were designed to drive down birth rates as rapidly and cheaply as possible, with coercion often a matter of course. In the war on population growth, birth control was deployed as a weapon, rather than as a tool of reproductive choice.Threaded throughout Reproductive Rights and Wrongs is the story of how international women's health activists fought to reform population control and promote a new agenda of sexual and reproductive health and rights for all people. While their efforts bore fruit, many obstacles remain. On one side is the anti-choice movement that wants to deny women access not only to abortion, but to most methods of contraception. On the other is a resurgent, well-funded population control lobby that often obscures its motives with the language of women's empowerment. Despite declining birth rates worldwide - average global family size is now 2.5 children - overpopulation alarm is on the rise, tied now to the threats of climate change and terrorism. Reproductive Rights and Wrongs helps readers understand how these contemporary developments are rooted in the longer history and politics of population control. In the pages of this book a new generation of readers will find knowledge, argumentation and inspiration that will help in ongoing struggles to achieve reproductive

rights and social, environmental and gender justice.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783901403321

Autore

Zhang Jin <1967, >

Titolo

Catch-up and competitiveness in China : the case of large firms in the oil industry / / Jin Zhang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-31790-5

0-203-44390-X

1-134-31791-3

1-280-03667-2

0-203-41286-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 p.)

Collana

RoutledgeCurzon studies on the Chinese economy ; ; 8

Disciplina

338.2/7282/0951

Soggetti

Petroleum industry and trade - China

Industries - Size - China

Big business - China

Competition - China

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [214]-219) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; The function of corporate headquarters; Corporate structure and headquarters' function: BP and Shell; Government centralisation and corporatisation: CNPC and Sinopec from the 1950s to 1997; Restructuring for vertical integration and flotation: CNPC and Sinopec in 1998 and 1999; Corporate structure and headquarters' function: PetroChina and Sinopec; From production unit to autonomous enterprise and back to production unit: Daqing and Zhenhai

Challenges for large Chinese firmsConclusion; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the role of corporate structure, including the role of corporate headquarters, in the success of large firms. It considers these issues in relation to large global corporations, thereby providing a 'benchmark', which is then used as a contrast in a discussion of corporate structure and the role of corporate headquarters within large



Chinese firms, many of which have evolved from former government ministries. It includes a detailed case-study of firms in the crucially important oil and petro-chemical sector. Overall, the book shows what a hugely competitive battle China's eme

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910965865503321

Autore

Clark Margaret

Titolo

Understanding religion and spirituality in clinical practice / / Margaret Clark

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2018

ISBN

0-429-92355-4

0-429-90932-2

0-429-48455-0

1-283-30340-X

9786613303400

1-84940-936-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (118 p.)

Collana

Society of Analytical Psychology monograph series

Disciplina

150.195

616.89

616.8914

Soggetti

Psychology, Religious

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; CONTENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; PREFACE TO THE SERIES; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE The legacy of Freud on religion; CHAPTER TWO Jung: the symbolic and the arcane; CHAPTER THREE The creation of our internal image of God: influences personal, developmental, and cultural; CHAPTER FOUR Spirituality, and God as a transitional object; CHAPTER FIVE Evaluating spiritual and mystical experiences: from inspiration to addiction; CHAPTER SIX Evaluating spiritual and mystical experiences: the importance of the ego in seeing visions or hearing voices

CHAPTER SEVEN Evaluating spiritual and mystical experiences: from



identification to possession-myths of the hero/saviour and of the DevilCHAPTER EIGHT Conclusion; REFERENCES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

"Understanding Religion and Spirituality in Clinical Practice is a volume in the clinical practice monograph series from the Society of Analytical Psychology. This series is intended primarily for trainees on psychotherapy and psychodynamic counselling courses, and for those who are newly qualified.Here, Margaret Clark considers the difficulties clinicians may encounter when patients talk about God or about their spiritual life, and how necessary it is for therapists to examine their own image of God and their own understanding of spirituality, so that they can distinguish these from those of their patients. She emphasizes how varied are people's images and understanding of what "God" stands for, and how in healthy development these will change over time.The book demonstrates, through numerous clinical vignettes, how clinicians can understand a patient's talking about religion or about God - hearing the voice of God, having a vision of God, or being convinced that God wants them to act in a particular way; or, equally, seeing the Devil.The book differentiates between religion and spirituality, and between religious and spiritual aims and practices. It also distinguishes some mystical and spiritual experiences from those which are considered psychotic.There is reference to major theorists throughout, particularly to Freud, Jung, and Winnicott."--Provided by publisher.