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The Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control Politics in America Paperback – March 12, 2007
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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.
- Print length464 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherUniversity of Illinois Press
- Publication dateMarch 12, 2007
- Dimensions6 x 1.2 x 9.25 inches
- ISBN-100252074599
- ISBN-13978-0252074592
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- Publisher : University of Illinois Press; 0003- edition (March 12, 2007)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 464 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0252074599
- ISBN-13 : 978-0252074592
- Item Weight : 1.45 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 1.2 x 9.25 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,348,585 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #246 in Abortion & Birth Control
- #336 in Women in Politics (Books)
- #1,774 in Social Services & Welfare (Books)
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Linda Gordon is the Florence Kelley Professor of History at New York University. She is the author of numerous books including Dorothea Lange and Impounded, and won the Bancroft Prize for The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction. She lives in New York.
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- Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2013Thorough research. Provides a quite complete history of birth control in America. The deep and convoluted history of contraception in the U.S. is useful in the end to better understand where we are today and what drives and motivates various supporters and opponents of female reproductive control.
- Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2018Excellent legal history on the right to use contraception.
- Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2015Though the book provides a reasonable picture of the history of voluntary motherhood, birth control and family planning; the more one reads the more it becomes obvious that the author's promotion of socialism is the aim.
- Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2020Read a chapter...cannot fathom the effort it takes to justify the murder of innocents.
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- ljf6Reviewed in Canada on July 4, 2019
5.0 out of 5 stars Thorough and remarkable.
My entire understanding of what it means to be a woman in the 21st century has been broadened thanks to the brilliantly thorough historical context offered in this book. I recommend this to anyone facing questions of contraception: whether for personal use, prescribing for others, or sex education. The author drives home the importance of understanding the wider context influencing the decisions available to us as well as how these options are available or have become available. An important read for medical students in particular.
- John H J BancroftReviewed in the United Kingdom on January 21, 2016
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