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Autore |
Solinger Rickie <1947-> |
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Titolo |
Pregnancy and power [[electronic resource] ] : a short history of reproductive politics in America / / Rickie Solinger |
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New York, : New York University Press, c2005 |
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ISBN |
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0-8147-4119-3 |
0-8147-0897-8 |
1-4294-1502-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (312 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Birth control - Political aspects - United States |
Abortion - Political aspects - United States |
Human reproduction - Political aspects - United States |
Women's rights - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-286) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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What is reproductive politics? -- Racializing the nation: from the Declaration of Independence to the Emancipation Proclamation, 1776-1865 -- Sex in the city: from secrecy to anonymity to privacy, 1870s to 1920s -- No extras: curbing fertility during the Great Depression -- Central planning: managing fertility, race, and rights in postwar America, 1940s to 1960 -- The human rights era: the rise of choice, the contours of backlash, 1960-1980 -- Revitalizing hierarchies: how the aftermath of Roe v. Wade affected fetuses, teenage girls, prisoners, and ordinary women, 1980 to the present. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A sweeping chronicle of women's battles for reproductive freedom throughout American history, Pregnancy and Power explores the many forces-social, racial, economic, and political-that have shaped women's reproductive lives in the United States. Leading historian Rickie Solinger argues that a woman's control over her body involves much more than the right to choose an abortion. Reproductive politics were at play when slaveholders devised breeding schemes, when the U.S. government took Indian children from their families in the nineteenth century, and |
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