Pregnancy and power
a short history of reproductive politics in America
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Publication
2005 - New York University Press, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
75,750 words, Guess
Page Count
303 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3398501M
- ISBN-139780814798270
- ISBN-100814798276
- OCLC Control Number320321118
- OCLC Control Number60188047
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- OCLC Control Numberpregnancypowersh0000soli
- Library of Congress Control Number2005011937
- LibraryThing710435
- Goodreads1584403
Classifications
- DDC363.9/6/0973
- LCCHQ766.5.U5 S67 2005
Description
"A 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 sterilized in the 1970s. Pregnancy and Power is filled with powerful accounts of the fights women have waged in this country to control their bodies and their destinies against anti-miscegenation laws, labor laws, anti-contraception laws, and recent welfare reform laws that punish poor women for having children."--Jacket.
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