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Abortion and woman's choice: the state, sexuality, and reproductive freedom

Petchesky, Rosalind P.

Year: c1990.

Publisher: Northeastern University Press.

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Frontmatter

Preface to the 1990 Edition

Introduction: Beyond "A Woman's Right to Choose" Feminist Ideas about Reproductive Rights

PART I FERTILITY CONTROL IN THEORY AND HISTORY

1. Fertility, Gender, and Class

2. Abortion and the State: Nineteenth-Century Criminalization

3. Abortion and the State: Twentieth-Century Legalization

PART II ABORTION PRACTICE IN THE 1970s

4. The Social and Economic Conditions of Women Who Get Abortions

5. Considering the Alternatives: The Problems of Contraception

6. Abortion and Heterosexual Culture: The Teenage Question

PART III SEXUAL POLITICS IN THE 1980s

7. The Antiabortion Movement and the Rise of the New Right

8. Protecting Family Integrity: The Rightward Drift in the Courts

9. Morality and Personhood: A Feminist Perspective

10. Women's Consciousness and the Abortion Decision

Conclusion: Feminism and the Conditions of Reproductive Freedom

Index

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Title:

Abortion and woman's choice : the state, sexuality, and reproductive freedom Rosalind Pollack Petchesky.

Author:

Petchesky, Rosalind P

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Abortion and woman's choice : the state, sexuality, and reproductive freedom Rosalind Pollack Petchesky.
Petchesky, Rosalind P
Boston: Northeastern University Press, c1990.

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Subject Headings:

• Abortion -- Political aspects
• Abortion -- United States
• Birth control

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