Article: The Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control Politics in America.(Book Review)

The Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control Politics in America. By Linda Gordon. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2002. Pp. 446. $34.95.)

Myriad brilliant books and articles on the history of contraception and abortion have appeared during the past decade, but none offers as comprehensive an overview, as wide-ranging and invigorating a historical analysis, as Linda Gordon's most recent updated and revised version of Woman's Body, Woman's Right: Birth Control in America. The book's new title, inspired by the words of the French Minister of Health in 1988 in support of the abortion drug RU-486 (mifepristone), reflects Gordon's ...

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