The Moral Property of Women
A History of Birth Control Politics in America
By: Linda Gordon
Paperback | 13 February 2008 | Edition Number 3
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Gordon puts today's reproduction control controversies--foreign aid for family planning, the abortion debates, teenage pregnancy and childbearing, stem-cell research--into historical perspective and shows how the campaign to legalize abortion is part of a 150-year-old struggle over reproductive rights, a struggle that has followed a circuitous path. Beginning with the "folk medicine" of birth control, Gordon discusses how the backlash against the first women's rights movement of the 1800s prohibited both abortion and contraception about 130 years ago. She traces the campaign for legal reproduction control from the 1870s to the present and argues that attitudes toward birth control have been inseparable from family values, especially standards about sexuality and gender equality.
Highlighting both leaders and followers in the struggle, The Moral Property of Women chronicles the contributions of well-known reproduction control pioneers such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, and Emma Goldman, as well as lesser- known campaigners including the utopian socialist Robert Dale Owen, the three doctors Foote--Edward Bliss Foote, Edward Bond Foote, and Mary Bond Foote--the civil libertarian Mary Ware Dennett, and the daring Jane project of the 1970s, in which Chicago women's liberation activists performed illegal abortions.
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ISBN: 9780252074592
ISBN-10: 0252074599
Published: 13th February 2008
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 464
Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 3
Dimensions (cm): 23 x 15 x 3.5
Weight (kg): 0.71
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