Controlling Reproduction: An American HistoryAndrea Tone Few topics stir stronger interest than birth control and abortion. Divisive opinions abound. This informative, detailed text contains 39 writings on the history of reproduction in the U.S. The historical path of reproduction control is viewed in the contexts of politics, law, medicine, sexuality, business, and social change. Because birth control has been construed chiefly as a female responsibility, Controlling Reproduction stresses the centrality of gender in the history of reproduction and explores how and why reproduction-as a biological, social, and economic function-became a gender-assigned issue. Controlling Reproduction also includes some of the most significant debates currently guiding the study of reproduction. Students will find this work a powerful, enlightening source on women's issues and the history of birth control in the United States. |
Contents
Taking the Trade Abortion and Gender Relations in an EighteenthCentury New England Village | 3 |
Advice on Menstruation and Pregnancy | 20 |
The Murders of Three Infants | 24 |
Commonwealth v Luceba Parker 1845 | 25 |
The Medicalization of Reproduction | 31 |
Science Enters the Birthing Room Obstetrics in America since the Eighteenth Century | 33 |
Indispositions of Women with Child | 58 |
Quackery and Abortion | 62 |
The Struggle for Reproductive Freedom | 147 |
The Prevention of Conception | 155 |
Prevention or AbortionWhich? | 156 |
On Race Decay and Wilful Sterility | 159 |
Voices from within the Veil | 162 |
The Program of Eugenics and the Negro Race | 163 |
Buck v Bell 1927 | 168 |
Reproductive Rights | 171 |
Prize for an Antiabortion Essay | 64 |
On Insane Women and the Reproductive System | 65 |
A Questionnaire for Professors of Obstetrics | 66 |
Fertility Control in NineteenthCentury America | 75 |
Family Limitation Sexual Control and Domestic Feminism in Victorian America | 77 |
Three Newspaper Advertisements | 99 |
On Disgraceful Advertisements | 100 |
Madame Restells Preventive Powders | 101 |
The Evil of the Age | 102 |
Regulating Reproduction | 107 |
About to Meet Her Maker The States Investigation of Abortion in Chicago 18671940 | 109 |
Connecticuts Statute on Abortionists | 138 |
Use of Poison to Induce an Abortion | 139 |
The Comstock Act of 1873 | 140 |
Georgias Statute on Abortionists | 143 |
Birth Control Revolution Reproductive Freedom or Social Control? | 145 |
The Role of Popular Organizing Feminists and Libertarians | 173 |
Griswold v Connecticut 1965 | 182 |
Eisenstadt v Baird 1972 | 185 |
A BackAlley Abortion | 186 |
Roe v Wade 1973 | 190 |
Doe v Bolton 1973 | 197 |
Testimony on Behalf of the Human Life Amendment | 201 |
Statement against the Human Life Bill | 205 |
The Hyde Amendment of 1977 | 207 |
The Political Economy of Birth Control | 209 |
Contraceptive Consumers Gender and the Political Economy of Birth Control in the 1930s | 211 |
Testimony on Oral Contraceptives | 233 |
Testimony on the Intrauterine Device | 236 |
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