The Moral Property of Women

Author: Gordon   Linda  

Publisher: University of Illinois Press‎

Publication year: 2002

E-ISBN: 9780252095276

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780252074592

Subject: C91 Sociology;C92 Demographic;D4 Workers, Peasants , Youth, Womens Movement and Organization

Keyword: 社会学,人口学,工人、农民、青年、妇女运动与组织

Language: ENG

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This thoroughly updated and revised version of Gordon's classic history Woman's Body, Woman's Right, (originally published in 1976) is 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. Arguing that reproduction control has always been central to women's status, Gordon shows how opposition to it has long been part of the conservative opposition to gender equality.

Chapter

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Birth Control, the Moral Property

PART 1: From Folk Medicine to Prohibition

1. The Prehistory of Birth Control

2. The Criminals

3. Prudent Sex

PART 2: Birth Control and Women’s Rights

4. Voluntary Motherhood

5. Social Purity and Eugenics

6. Race Suicide

7. Continence or Indulgence

8. Birth Control and Social Revolution

PART 3: From Women’s Rights to Family Planning

9. Professionalization

10. Depression

11. Planned Parenthood

12. Birth Control Becomes Public Policy

PART 4: Birth Control in the Era of Second-Wave Feminism

13. Abortion, the Mother Controversy

14. Is Nothing Simple about Reproduction Control?

Conclusion: Birth Control and Feminism

Appendix

Notes

Index

About the Author

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