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Pregnancy and Power, Revised Edition - A History of Reproductive Politics in the United States (Paperback)
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Pregnancy and Power, Revised Edition - A History of Reproductive Politics in the United States (Paperback)
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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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