The moral property of women a history of birth control politics in America / Linda Gordon.
Material type: TextPublication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [(c)2002.]Edition: third editionDescription: 1 online resource (xiii, 446 pages)Content type:- text
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- online resource
- 9780252095276
- 0252095278
- History of birth control politics in America
- HQ766.5.5
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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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