The moral property of women : a history of birth control politics in America
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The moral property of women : a history of birth control politics in America
University of Illinois Press, 2002
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Substantially rev. and updated ed. of: Woman's body, woman's right. 2nd ed. 1990
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Introduction : birth control, the moral property of women
- From folk medicine to prohibition to resistance. The prehistory of birth control. The criminals. Prudent sex : neo-malthusianism and perfectionism
- Toward women's power. Voluntary motherhood : the beginnings of the birth-control movement. Social purity and eugenics. Race suicide. Continence or indulgence : doctors and the "sexual revolution". Birth control and social revolution
- From women's rights to family planning. The professionalization of birth control. The depression. Planned parenthood. Birth control becomes public policy, 1945-70
- Birth control in the era of second-wave feminsm. The mother controversy : abortion. Is nothing simple about reproduction control? Birth control and feminism