Download or read book Women's Right to Reproductive Self-Determination from the Perspective of Civil Law written by Weijun Jiang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-12 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the issue of abortion and women's rights in contemporary China. With a vast population, China's government has pursued controversial policies, such as the One Child Policy, in the past. Today, a rapidly urbanizing society is aging quickly, and the policies are loosening; but what are the implications for Chinese women, and how do policies compare to those in the West? In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Jiang eludicates the Chinese legal and social history of abortion for the first time in English. This book will be of interest to lawyers, NGO researchers, feminists and academics.