Now in paperback, The Moral Property of Women is a thoroughly updated and revised version of the award-winning historian Linda Gordon's classic study, Woman's Body, Woman's Right (1976). It is the only book to cover the entire history of the intense controversies about reproductive rights that have raged in the United States for more than 150 years. Arguing that reproduction control has always been central to women's status, Gordon shows how opposition to it has long been part of the entrenched opposition to gender equality.
| Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Birth Control, the Moral Property PART 1: From Folk Medicine to Prohibition 1. The Prehistory of Birth Control 2. The Criminals 3. Prudent Sex PART 2: Birth Control and Women's Rights 4. Voluntary Motherhood 5. Social Purity and Eugenics 6. Race Suicide 7. Continence or Indulgence 8. Birth Control and Social Revolution PART 3: From Women's Rights to Family Planning 9. Professionalization 10. Depression 11. Planned Parenthood 12. Birth Control Becomes Public Policy PART 4: Birth Control in the Era of Second-Wave Feminism 13. Abortion, the Mother Controversy 14. Is Nothing Simple about Reproduction Control? Conclusion: Birth Control and Feminism Appendix Notes Index About the Author Back | Honorable Mention, John Cawelti Book Award, American Culture Association, 2002.
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2004. — American Culture Association
Honorable Mention, John Cawelti Book Award, American Culture Association, 2002.
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2004. — Choice Outstanding Academic Title
|Linda Gordon, a professor of history at New York University, is the author of numerous books, including Pitied but Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare, 1890–1935, and The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction, which won the Bancroft Prize and the Beveridge Prize.