03091nam 2200601Ia 450 991045205840332120200520144314.00-8147-4119-30-8147-0897-81-4294-1502-99780814798270(CKB)1000000000467182(EBL)865352(OCoLC)780425879(MiAaPQ)EBC865352(OCoLC)76964386(MdBmJHUP)muse10734(Au-PeEL)EBL865352(CaPaEBR)ebr10137193(EXLCZ)99100000000046718220050429d2005 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPregnancy and power[electronic resource] a short history of reproductive politics in America /Rickie SolingerNew York New York University Pressc20051 online resource (312 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8147-9828-4 0-8147-9827-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-286) and index.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.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 when doctors pressed Latina women to be...Birth controlPolitical aspectsUnited StatesAbortionPolitical aspectsUnited StatesHuman reproductionPolitical aspectsUnited StatesWomen's rightsUnited StatesElectronic books.Birth controlPolitical aspectsAbortionPolitical aspectsHuman reproductionPolitical aspectsWomen's rights363.9/6/0973Solinger Rickie1947-1045723MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452058403321Pregnancy and power2472176UNINA