Pregnancy and power : a short history of reproductive politics in America / Rickie Solinger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Solinger, Rickie, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Birth control--Political aspects--United States.

Birth control.

Abortion--Political aspects--United States.

Abortion.

Human reproduction--Political aspects--United States.

Human reproduction.

Women's rights--United States.

Women's rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2005.

Summary:

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...

Contents:

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-286) and index.

ISBN:

0-8147-4119-3

0-8147-0897-8

1-4294-1502-9

OCLC:

780425879

Publisher Number:

9780814798270