Gender and Reproductive Health

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Brodie, Janet. Contraception and Abortion in Nineteenth-Century America. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1994.

Clarke, Adele. Disciplining Reproduction: Modernity, American Life Sciences, and “The Problems of Sex.” University of California Press, 1998.

Davidson, Arnold I. The Emergence of Sexuality: Historical Epistemology and the Formation of Concepts. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.

Dubow, Sara.  Ourselves Unborn: A History of the Fetus in Modern America. 2010.

Gerber, Lynne. Seeking the Straight and Narrow: Weight Loss and Sexual Reorientation in Evangelical America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.

Gordon, Linda. Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1977.

Grossmann, Atina. Reforming Sex: The German Movement for Birth Control and Abortion Reform, 1920-1950. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Jaggar, A.M. and S. R. Bordo, eds. Gender/Body/Knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1989.

Norgren, Christiana A. Abortion Before Birth Control: the Politics of Reproduction in Postwar Japan. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001.

Petchesky, Rosalind. “Antiabortion, Antifeminism, and the Rise of the New Right,” Feminist Studies 7:2 (Summer 1981), 206-46.

Read, Jen’nan Ghazal, and Bridget K. Gorman. “Gender and Health Inequality.” Annual Review of Sociology 36 (2010): 371-86.

Reagan, Leslie. When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and the Law in the United States, 1867-1973, University of California Press, 1997.

Tone, Andrea. Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America. Hill and Wang, 2001.