Introduction: What is Reproductive Politics; 1. Racializing the Nation; 2. Sex in the City; 3. No Extras; 4. Central Planning; 5. The Human Rights Era; 6. Revitalizing Hierarchies; Notes; Acknowledgments; Index; About the Author
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 ster
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-286) and index
