Moral Property of Women A History of Birth Control Politics in America

Name: Moral Property of Women A History of Birth Control Politics in America
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ISBN: 9780252074592

ISBN-10: 0252074599

ISBN-13: 9780252074592

Edition: 3rd 2002 (Annotated)

Authors: Linda Gordon

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Now in paperback, The Moral Property of Women is a thoroughly updated and revised version of the award-winning historian Linda Gordon 's classic study, Woman's Body, Woman's Right 1976). It is the only book to cover the entire history of the intense controversies about reproductive rights that have raged in the United States for more than 150 years. Arguing that reproduction control has always beencentral to women's status, Gordon shows how opposition to it as long been part of the entrenched opposition to ender equality.

Book details

List price: $28.00
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 3/12/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Linda Gordon is the Florence Kelley Professor of History at New York University. She is the author of numerous books including Dorothea Lange and Impounded, and won the Bancroft Prize for The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction. She lives in New York.



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Birth Control, the Moral Property of Women



From Folk Medicine to Prohibition to Resistance



The Prehistory of Birth Control



The Criminals



Prudent Sex



Birth Control and Women's Rights



Voluntary Motherhood



Social Purity and Eugenics



Race Suicide



Continence or Indulgence



Birth Control and Social Revolution



From Women's Rights to Family Planning



Professionalization



Depression



Planned Parenthood



Birth Control Becomes Public Policy



Birth Control in the Era of Second-Wave Feminism



Abortion, the Mother Controversy



Is Nothing Simple about Reproduction Control?


Conclusion: Birth Control and Feminism



Selected Recent Scholarship on the History of Reproduction Control


Notes


Index