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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [(c)2002.]Edition: third editionDescription: 1 online resource (xiii, 446 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780252095276
  • 0252095278
Other title:
  • History of birth control politics in America
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HQ766.5.5
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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 : 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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Online Book G. Allen Fleece Library Online Non-fiction HQ766.5.5 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn828736024

Substantially revised and updated edition of: Woman's body, woman's right. 2nd edition 1990.

First Illinois paperback, 2007.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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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