Choice Magazine''s Outstanding Academic Books for 2004The only book to cover the entire history of birth control and the intense controversies about reproduction rights that have raged in the United States for more than 150 years,
The Moral Property of Women is a thoroughly updated and revised version of the award-winning historian Linda Gordon''s classic history
Woman''s Body, Woman''s Right, originally published in 1976.Arguing that reproduction control has always been central to women''s status,
The Moral Property of Women shows how opposition to it has long been part of the conservative opposition to gender equality. From its roots in folk medicine and in a campaign so broad it constituted a grassroots social movement at some points in history, to its legitimization through public policy, the widespread acceptance of birth control has involved a major reorientation of sexual values.
Gordon puts today''s reproduction control controversies--foreign
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Honorable Mention, John Cawelti Book Award, American Culture Association, 2002. A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2004.
Praise for earlier editions:
"[Gordon's] analyses are novel, insightful, and provocative." -- Choice
