Controlling Reproduction: An American History

This volume offers insights culled from women’s studies scholarship with the intent of exploring society. Controlling Reproduction is an informative, comprehensive account that provides insight and perspective on the historical path of reproduction control, which is viewed in the contexts of politics, law, medicine, sexuality, business, and social change. ― Feminist Bookstore News

The breadth of Andrea Tone’s project is its greatest strength. Bringing together the topics of birth control, abortion,a nd the medicalization of pregnancy, and changes in these over three centuries, allows the reader to see connections that are often not made. Controlling Reproduction is interdisciplinary and connects economic, political, and technological changes and their effects on reproduction. ― Phoebe: Journal Of Feminist Scholarhip, Theory and Aesthetics

This book traces the history of the reproduction rights movement in the United States. . . . From Cornelia Dayton’s essay on abortion in eighteenth-century New England to Rosalind Petchesky’s examination of birth control politics, Controlling Reproduction contains a wealth of material on every aspect of reproductive freedom. Contains a wealth of material on every aspect of reproductive freedom ― Journal of Women’s History