Pregnancy and power

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"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.

subjects: Abortion,  Birth control,  Human reproduction,  Political aspects,  Political aspects of Abortion,  Political aspects of Birth control,  Political aspects of Human reproduction,  Women's rights,  United states, politics and government,  Régulation des naissances,  Aspect politique,  Avortement,  Reproduction humaine,  Femmes,  Droits,  Empfängnisverhütung,  Familienplanung,  Schwangerschaftsabbruch,  Reproductive Rights,  History,  Reproduction,  Contraception,  Induced Abortion,  SOCIAL SCIENCE,  Abortion & Birth Control

Places: United States