Reproductive wrongs a short history of bad ideas about women
"Where do damaging ideas about women come from? The belief that granting women reproductive freedom poses a threat to a natural order, to "traditional" values, is a myth that has long dominated American politics, providing justification for increasing control over women's bodies and lives. It could...
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New York :
Liveright Publishing Corporation,
2026
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1: Dawn of the Dicks: The Roman Imperial Poet Ovid Inaugurates Antiabortion Propaganda
- 2: Pregnant and Foot-Washing and In the Kitchen: Early Christian Reproductive Backlash
- 3: It's the Baby, Stupid: Augustine's Neurosis, Our Theocracy
- 4: Hammered: A Monk Off His Head About Women's Bodies
- 5: Hell's Bells: Dickens Shills for Victorian Misery
- 6: This Looks Oddly Familiar: Eugenics and the Holy Image
- 7: You Can Make This Stuff Up: Antiabortion Messaging in Wonderland
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index.
