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Birth strike : the hidden fight over women's work /

Argues that the effort to block birth control and abortion in the United States is neither fundamentally about religion nor about politicians pandering to a right-wing base, nor is it a result of prudery or to punish women for having sex. It is about the labor of bearing and rearing children, who wi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brown, Jenny, 1965- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : PM Press, [2019].
Subjects:
Women's rights > United States.
Labor > United States.
Women > United States > Social conditions.
Birth control > United States.
Reproductive rights > United States.
Family planning > United States.
Women's rights.
Birth control.
Reproductive rights.
Family planning.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Table of Contents:
  • International comparisons
  • Small government, big families
  • Is it a birth strike? women testify
  • Comstockery to the baby boom
  • Population panic to the baby bust
  • Longevity: crisis or blessing?
  • Immigration: "instant adults"
  • Reproduction and race
  • Cheap labor
  • Cannon fodder
  • Controlling the means of reproduction
  • Appendix: Consciousness-raising questions.