Investigating why poor women and men decline to use family-planning services, medical anthropologist Maternowska (U. of California at San Francisco) conducted fieldwork in the Haitian slum of Cité Soleil during the three years following the first coup overthrowing President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a remarkable feat in itself as Cité Soleil represented a major part of the base for Aristide's Lavalas movement and was under siege by the Coup supporters. Employing a political economy of fertility framework, she examines how structures of power determine (and deform) demographic policies as they filter down to the program level and finds a dynamic of reproduction and resistance in which local popular movements challenge traditional public health initiatives as unresponsive to the needs of the poor. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)