The moral property of women [[electronic resource] ] : a history of birth control politics in America / / Linda Gordon

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910779469803321
• Autore: Gordon Linda
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, 2002
• ISBN: 0-252-09527-8; 1-283-95999-2
• Edizione: [3rd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (465 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): GordonLinda
• Disciplina: 363.9/6/0973
• Soggetti: Birth control - United States - History; Contraception; Sexuality; Reproductive Medicine; Reproductive Rights
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Substantially rev. and updated ed. of: Woman's body, woman's right. 2nd ed. 1990.; First Illinois paperback, 2007.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Linda Gordon's classic study, The Moral Property of Women, is the most complete history of birth control ever written. It covers the entire history of the intense controversies about reproductive rights that have raged in the United States for more than 150 years, from the earliest ; attempts of women to organize for the legal control of their bodies to the effects of second-wave feminism. Gordon defines the role that birth control has played in society's attitudes toward women, sexuality, and gender equality, arguing that reproductive control has always been central to women's status. She shows how opposition to it has long been part of the conservative opposition to gender equality.