Controlling Reproduction

An American History
Herausgeber: Tone, Andrea

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• The Worlds of Women Series
• Verlag: RLPG/Galleys
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 437g
• ISBN-13: 9780842025751
• ISBN-10: 0842025758
• Artikelnr.: 22104292

Autorenporträt

Andrea Tone is assistant professor of history at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.

Inhaltsangabe

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