The moral property of women : a history of birth control politics in America / / Linda Gordon.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Gordon, Linda.
• TeilnehmendeR: Gordon, Linda.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Edition: 3rd ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xiii, 446 p.
• Notes: Substantially rev. and updated ed. of: Woman's body, woman's right. 2nd ed. 1990.; First Illinois paperback, 2007.

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.