Reproducing Inequities: Poverty and the Politics of Population in Haiti Author: M. Catherine Maternowska

Reproducing Inequities: Poverty and the Politics of Population in Haiti Author: M. Catherine Maternowska Year: 2006 Publisher: Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick (Rutgers Studies in Medical Anthropology) Foreword: Paul Farmer Type: Medical anthropology / ethnography Central Argument Maternowska argues that family planning programs in Haiti — generously funded by USAID and the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) — failed not because of Haitian ignorance or cultural resistance, but because they were structurally divorced from the political and economic conditions that shaped poor women's reproductive lives. Grounding her analysis in more than a decade of fieldwork (1985–1995) in cite soleil, Port-au-Prince's largest and most impoverished slum, she develops a political economy of fertility (PEF) framework to show how domestic gender relations, local politics, national violence, and international aid architecture — acting simultaneously — determined whether women used contraception.