The moral property of women
Subtitle: a history of birth control politics in America
By: Linda Gordon.
Contributors: Gordon, Linda.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Urbana and Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 446
Subjects: Birth control -- United States -- History
Other titles: History of birth control politics in America
Description: "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 edition of the award-winning historian Linda Gordon's classic history Woman's Body, Woman's Rights, originally published in 1976."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Substantially rev. and updated ed. of: Woman's body, woman's right. 2nd ed. 1990.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : birth control, the moral property of women; title: From folk medicine to prohibition to resistance. The prehistory of birth control. The criminals. Prudent sex : neo-malthusianism and perfectionism; title: 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; title: From women's rights to family planning. The professionalization of birth control. The depression. Planned parenthood. Birth control becomes public policy, 1945-70; title: Birth control in the era of second-wave feminsm. The mother controversy : abortion. Is nothing simple about reproduction control? Birth control and feminism.