The Moral Property of Women

A History of Birth Control Politics in America

Author: Linda Gordon
ISBN: 0252027647

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 version of the award-winning historian Linda Gordon's classic history Woman's Body, Woman's Right, originally published in 1976.Arguing that reproduction control has always been central to women's status, The Moral Property of Women shows how opposition to it has long been part of the conservative opposition to gender equality. From its roots in folk medicine and in a campaign so broad it constituted a grassroots social movement at some points in history, to its legitimization through public policy, the widespread acceptance of birth control has involved a major reorientation of sexual values.In three new chapters and updates throughout, Gordon addresses birth control and public policy, the intense abortion debates of the past thirty years, and a ho

Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publish Date: 2002

Subjects: Social Science / People with Disabilities

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Pregnancy Loss/Infertility)