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

Rosalind P. Petchesky c1990 © University Press of New England
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  • 9781555530754 (paper)
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  • American: General & Multiperiod
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • Preface to the 1990 Edition (page ix)
  • Introduction: Beyond "A Woman's Right to Choose" Feminist Ideas about Reproductive Rights (page 1)
  • PART I FERTILITY CONTROL IN THEORY AND HISTORY
  • 1. Fertility, Gender, and Class (page 25)
  • 2. Abortion and the State: Nineteenth-Century Criminalization (page 67)
  • 3. Abortion and the State: Twentieth-Century Legalization (page 101)
  • PART II ABORTION PRACTICE IN THE 1970s
  • 4. The Social and Economic Conditions of Women Who Get Abortions (page 141)
  • 5. Considering the Alternatives: The Problems of Contraception (page 168)
  • 6. Abortion and Heterosexual Culture: The Teenage Question (page 205)
  • PART III SEXUAL POLITICS IN THE 1980s
  • 7. The Antiabortion Movement and the Rise of the New Right (page 241)
  • 8. Protecting Family Integrity: The Rightward Drift in the Courts (page 286)
  • 9. Morality and Personhood: A Feminist Perspective (page 330)
  • 10. Women's Consciousness and the Abortion Decision (page 368)
  • Conclusion: Feminism and the Conditions of Reproductive Freedom (page 388 )
  • Index (page 405 )
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BJS 39.3 (Sep. 1988): 464-465 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0007-1315%28198809%2939%3A3%3C464%3AAAWCTS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-9
APSR 79.1 (Mar. 1985): 199-200 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-0554%28198503%2979%3A1%3C199%3ARHLRTA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-%23
CS 14.1 (Jan. 1985): 26-29 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-3061%28198501%2914%3A1%3C26%3ATMOTAC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-W
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