The moral property of women : a history of birth control politics in America /
History of birth control politics in America
Linda Gordon.
- 3rd ed.
- Urbana and Chicago : University of Illinois Press, 2002.
- xiii, 446 p. ; 25 cm.
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.