Bibliograph

The moral property of women, a history of birth control politics in America, Linda Gordon

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The moral property of women, a history of birth control politics in America, Linda Gordon

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The moral property of women

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

48958408

Responsibility statement

Linda Gordon

Review

"The only book to cover the entire history of birth control and the intense controversies about reproduction rights that have raged in the United States for more than 150 years, The Moral Property of Women is a thoroughly updated and revised edition of the award-winning historian Linda Gordon's classic history Woman's Body, Woman's Rights, originally published in 1976"--Jacket

Sub title

a history of birth control politics in America

Table Of 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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History of birth control politics in America

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