Reviews for Moral Property of Women A History of Birth Control Politics in America

The average rating for Moral Property of Women A History of Birth Control Politics in America based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-12-22 00:00:00 Louise Franklin One: Why isn't Linda Gordon more popular? I mean, if hacks like Perez Hilton are indexed in Wikipedia, she should be, too. Anyway, I immensely enjoyed The Moral Property of women, it presents the reader with a very important history of both birth control and abortion (the two are rather inseparable) in the United States. Particularly interesting (to me) was her outline of when and how abortion became illegal in the US, and her chronicle of contraceptives used in pre-class, pre-urban, and/or pre-industrialized societies. My only criticism is that Gordon speaks very little of sterilization and barely mentions the roles of Black women except during points at which anyone doing anything regarding reproductive health would have known to mention women of color (fights for women's reproductive health in NY, the Eugenics Movement &c.). (If only someone would synthesize Gordon and Dorothy Robert's work!)

Review # 2 was written on 2019-12-03 00:00:00 Fischer Lionel A must-read for anyone interested in the history of birth control methods, abortion, and the political thought and ideologies that have been involved.