TY - BOOK AU - Gordon,Linda AU - Gordon,Linda TI - The moral property of women: a history of birth control politics in America SN - 0252027647 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - HQ766.5.U5 G66 2002 U1 - 363.9/6/0973 21 PY - 2002/// CY - Urbana and Chicago PB - University of Illinois Press KW - Birth control KW - United States KW - History N1 - 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 ER -