| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
The boundaries of her body/ Debran Rowland. |
| Reminder of title: |
the troubling history of women's rights in America / |
| remainder title: |
Troubling history of women's rights in America |
| Author: |
Rowland, Debran. |
| Published: |
Naperville, Ill. :Sphinx Pub., : 2004., |
| Description: |
xxxviii, 788 p. ;24 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Introduction : the politics of biology, the essence of control -- section 1: The 1600s-early 1900s. Women and the hierarchy of gender -- Biology, sex, and the obligation of motherhood -- Working women and the issue of "protection" -- section 2: Twentieth century developments. The nation goes to war and "Rosie" is born -- The birth control debate begins -- The 1960s and an era of change -- The law of pregnancy in the workplace -- Guerrilla tactics and reproductive rights today -- A woman's worth : less is still less -- The reproductive rights of "new medicine" -- Sex and "seduction" in the time of AIDS -- section 3: The politics of female adolescence. Pop life and the legal confusion of girls -- section 4: Violence and women. A woman's place is in the hospital -- Current issues in rape and sexual assault law -- The private story of private abuse -- Epilogue. |
| Subject: |
Women - Legal status, laws, etc. - United States - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=119994An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
1417562501 (electronic bk.) |