{"product_id":"the-moral-property-of-women-9780252074592","title":"The Moral Property of Women","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eChoice Magazine''s Outstanding Academic Books for 2004\u003c\/i\u003eThe 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Moral Property of Women\u003c\/i\u003e is a thoroughly updated and revised version of the award-winning historian Linda Gordon''s classic history \u003ci\u003eWoman''s Body, Woman''s Right,\u003c\/i\u003e originally published in 1976.Arguing that reproduction control has always been central to women''s status, \u003ci\u003eThe Moral Property of Women\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cp\u003eGordon puts today''s reproduction control controversies--foreign \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHonorable Mention, John Cawelti Book Award, American Culture Association, 2002. A \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e Outstanding Academic Title, 2004.\u003cbr\u003ePraise for earlier editions: \u003cbr\u003e\"[Gordon's] analyses are novel, insightful, and provocative.\" -- \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49371658584407,"sku":"9780252074592","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252074592.jpg?v=1730154098","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-moral-property-of-women-9780252074592","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}