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

Linda Gordon

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

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