Woman's body, woman's right :birth control in America /Linda Gordon.
Description
The politics of reproduction : The prohibition on birth control -- The folklore 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: the 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 -- A note on population control -- Reproductive rights in the 1970s: birth control in the era of the Women's Liberation Movement -- Birth control in the era of conservatism and runaway technology: the 1980s -- Sexuality, feminism, and birth control today.
xxii, 570 pages ;20 cm
Book Details
Author
Gordon, Linda.
Place Published
City
New York, N.Y., U.S.A.
Publication Subjects
Birth control--United States--History.
Natalidad, Limitaci{acute}on de la--EE.UU.
Mujeres en EE.UU.
Mujeres--Derecho de la mujer--EE.UU.