Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America

by Rickie Solinger

Book Overview

A sweeping chronicle of women's battles for reproductive freedom

A sweeping chronicle of women's battles for reproductive freedom throughout American history, Pregnancy and Power explores the many forces--social, racial, economic, and political--that have shaped women's reproductive lives in the United States.

Leading historian Rickie Solinger argues that a woman's control over her body involves much more than the right...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814798284
• ISBN13: 9780814798287
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Women's struggles: beyond the right to abortion

For a single-volume, in-depth history of women's struggles for reproductive freedom through out American history, college-level and many a public library holding will want to look at PREGNANCY AND POWER: A SHORT HISTORY OF REPRODUCTIVE POLITICS IN AMERICA. Historian Rickie Solinger argues that women's struggles go beyond the right for abortion: reproductive politics surfaced when slaveholders devised breeding schemes, the US government took Indian kids from families, and when doctors encouraged Latina women to be sterilized in the 1970s: thus PREGNANCY AND POWER embraces far more than the usual perspective.

An important, well written book

Pregnancy and Power is an eye-opening exploration of reproductive politics and should be read by anyone who cares about the social injustices women are subjected to in this regard.