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The Boundaries of Her Body: The Troubling History of Women's Rights in America
by Rowland, Debran
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1572483687
- ISBN 13
- 9781572483682
- Seller
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
Naperville, IL: Sphinx Publishing (Sourcebooks, Inc.), 2004 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Grey boards, red titles on spine, xix, 788, [1] pp, notes, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Rowland looks at the history of American law as it specifically affects women, discussing cases as well as the social background. Contents: 1600s to early 1900s (women & the hierarchy of gender; biology, sex, & the obligation of motherhood; working women & the issue of "protection"); 20th century developments (nation goes to war & "Rosie" is born; the birth control debate begins; the 1960s & an era of change; law of pregnancy in the workplace; guerrilla tactics & reproductive rights today; a woman's worth: less is still less; reproductive rights of "new medicine"; sex & "seduction" in the time of AIDS); politics of female adolescence (pop life & the legal confusion of girls); violence & women (a woman's place is in the hospital; current issues in rape & sexual assault law; the private story of private abuse). Shipping weight 4 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 23½ X 16 cm.
Synopsis
Whatever your political beliefs, if you are a woman, you must know what the law says about you.The Boundaries of Her Body is the definitive history of the cycle of advances and setbacks that characterizes women’s rights in America. Author Debran Rowland covers emotionally charged issues with thoughtful detail, offering insight into the strategies used by politicians and lobbyists to defeat long-standing law.The defeat for women’s rights is an emotional and often polarized debate: a debate over what a woman is, what a woman ought to be, and what a woman should, therefore, be allowed to do.Today, the future of women’s rights is in jeopardy.“If I had to guess at the future for women, I would say we stand to lose many more significant battles—and the rights that go with them—if we don’t begin to abandon the niceties of a comfortable life with educated opinions and start waging the kind of aggressive, no-holds-barred guerrilla war that our opponents have been riding to victory.”—from the Epilogue to The Boundaries of Her BodyRowland combines provocative arguments with exhaustive research and affirms that, in spite of advancements, the boundaries of women’s bodies will continue to be a source of bitter contention in the law.“Debran Rowland brilliantly argues the continuing inequality of women’s rights in America with the most meticulous and comprehensive research in our times.”—Betty Friedanauthor of The Feminine Mystique
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- Bookseller
- Twin City Antiquarian Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SSWM00002
- Title
- The Boundaries of Her Body: The Troubling History of Women's Rights in America
- Author
- Rowland, Debran
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1572483687
- ISBN 13
- 9781572483682
- Publisher
- Sphinx Publishing (Sourcebooks, Inc.)
- Place of Publication
- Naperville, IL
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- Social Sciences Women's Studies Sociology Law
- Bookseller catalogs
- Law;
- X weight
- 64 oz
- Size
- 23½ X 16 cm
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