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The moral property of women : a history of birth control politics in America / Linda Gordon.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Urbana and Chicago : University of Illinois Press, 2002.Edition: 3rd edDescription: xiii, 446 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0252027647 (cloth : alk. paper)
Other title:
  • History of birth control politics in America
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.9/6/0973 21
LOC classification:
  • HQ766.5.U5 G66 2002
Contents:
Birth control, the moral property of women. PART 1. From Folk Medicine to Prohibition to Resistance: 1. The prehistory of birth control. 2. The criminals. 3. Prudent sex. PART 2. Birth Control and Women's Rights: 4. Voluntary motherhood. 5. Social purity and eugenics. 6. Race suicide. 7. Continence or indulgence. 8. Birth control and social revolution. PART 3. From Women's Rights to Family Planning: 9. Professionalization. 10. Depression. 11. Planned parenthood. PART 4. Birth control in the Era of Second-Wave Feminism: 13. Abortion: the mother controversy. 14. Is nothing simple about reproduction control? Birth control and feminism. Appendix: Selected recent scholarship on the history of reproduction control.

Substantially rev. and updated ed. of: Woman's body, woman's right. 2nd ed. 1990.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Birth control, the moral property of women. PART 1. From Folk Medicine to Prohibition to Resistance: 1. The prehistory of birth control. 2. The criminals. 3. Prudent sex. PART 2. Birth Control and Women's Rights: 4. Voluntary motherhood. 5. Social purity and eugenics. 6. Race suicide. 7. Continence or indulgence. 8. Birth control and social revolution. PART 3. From Women's Rights to Family Planning: 9. Professionalization. 10. Depression. 11. Planned parenthood. PART 4. Birth control in the Era of Second-Wave Feminism: 13. Abortion: the mother controversy. 14. Is nothing simple about reproduction control? Birth control and feminism. Appendix: Selected recent scholarship on the history of reproduction control.

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