Title:
The moral property of women : a history of birth control politics in America / Linda Gordon.
Author:
Gordon, Linda, author.
Gordon, Linda. Woman's body, woman's right.
Publication Information:
Urbana and Chicago : University of Illinois Press, 2007.
Call Number:
HQ766.5 .U5 G66 2007
Abstract:
"Linda Gordon's classic study, The Moral Property of Women, is the most complete history of birth control ever written. It covers the entire history of the intense controversies about reproductive rights that have raged in the United States for more than 150 years, from the earliest attempts of women to organize for the legal control of their bodies to the effects of second-wave feminism. Gordon defines the role that birth control has played in society's attitudes toward women, sexuality, and gender equality, arguing that reproductive control has always been central to women's status. She shows how opposition to it has long been part of the conservative opposition to gender equality." -- Publisher's description
Edition:
First Illinois paperback edition.
ISBN:
9780252074592
Physical Description:
xiii, 446 pages ; 25 cm
General Note:
"This book is a substantially revised and updated edition of Woman's Body, Woman's Right: Birth Control in America (Grossman Publishers,1976; 2d ed. Penguin Books, 1990)."
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Contents:
Introduction : birth control, the moral property of women -- From folk medicine to prohibition to resistance. The prehistory of birth control -- The criminals -- Prudent sex ; Malthusianism ; Neo-malthusianism ; Perfectionism -- 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.
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