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Pregnancy and power : a history of reproductive politics in the United States / Rickie Solinger.
LIBRA HQ766.5.U5 S67 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Solinger, Rickie, 1947- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Birth control--Political aspects--United States.
- Birth control.
- Abortion--Political aspects--United States.
- Abortion.
- Abortion--Political aspects.
- Human reproduction--Political aspects.
- Human reproduction.
- Birth control--Political aspects.
- United States.
- Human reproduction--Political aspects--United States.
- Women's rights--United States.
- Women's rights.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 341 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Revised edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2019]
- Contents:
- Introduction: 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781479847457
- 1479847453
- 9781479866502
- 1479866504
- OCLC:
- 1052905412
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