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Pregnancy and Power, Revised Edition - A History of Reproductive Politics in the United States (Hardcover)
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Pregnancy and Power, Revised Edition - A History of Reproductive Politics in the United States (Hardcover)
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A sweeping chronicle of women’s battles for reproductive freedom
Reproductive politics in the United States has always been about
who has the power to decide—lawmakers, the courts, clergy,
physicians, or the woman herself. Authorities have rarely put
women’s needs and interests at the center of these debates.
Instead, they have created reproductive laws and policies to solve
a variety of social and political problems, with outcomes that
affect the lives of different groups of women differently.
Reproductive politics were at play when slaveholders devised
“breeding” schemes, when the US government took indigenous
children from their families in the nineteenth century, and when
doctors pressured Latina women to be sterilized in the 1970s.
Tracing the main plot lines of women’s reproductive lives, the
leading historian Rickie Solinger redefines the idea of
reproductive freedom, putting race and class at the center of the
effort to control sex and pregnancy in America over time.
Revisiting these issues after more than a decade, this revised
edition of Pregnancy and Power reveals how far the reproductive
justice movement has come, and the renewed struggles it faces in
the present moment. Even after nearly a half-century of
“reproductive rights,” a cascade of new laws and policies
limits access and prescribes punishments for many people trying to
make their own reproductive decisions. In this edition, Solinger
traces the contemporary rise of reproductive consumerism and the
politics of “free market” health care as economic inequality
continues to expand in the US, revealing the profound limits of
“choice” and the continued need for the reproductive justice
framework.
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