Controlling Reproduction

An American History

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Controlling Reproduction

An American History

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Few topics stir stronger interest than birth control and abortion. Divisive opinions abound. This informative, detailed text contains 39 writings on the history of reproduction in the U.S. The historical path of reproduction control is viewed in the contexts of politics, law, medicine, sexuality, business, and social change. Because birth control has been construed chiefly as a female responsibility, Controlling Reproduction stresses the centrality of gender in the history of reproduction and explores how and why reproduction-as a biological, social, and economic function-became a gender-assigned issue. Controlling Reproduction also includes some of the most significant debates currently guiding the study of reproduction. Students will find this work a powerful, enlightening source on women's issues and the history of birth control in the United States.

Table of Contents

Part 1 I Birth Control and Abortion in Early America
Part 2 IIThe Medicalization of Reproduction
Part 3 III Fertility Control in Nineteenth-Century America
Part 4 IV Regulating Reproduction
Part 5 V Birth Control Revolution: Reproductive Freedom or Social Control?
Part 6 VI Reproductive Rights
Part 7 VII The Political Economy of Birth Control

Product details

Published Oct 01 1996
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 234
ISBN 9780842025751
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions 227 x 155 mm
Series The Worlds of Women Series
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Andrea Tone

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