The moral property of women a history of birth control politics in America /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
2002.
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| Edition: | 3rd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.