09.14.2021 - By Michael Patrick Cullinane
The Progressive Era shaped the way we think about women's reproductive rights, and Prof. Barbara Schneider's book Corporal Rhetoric investigates all the ways. It tells how motherhood went from a natural experience to a pathogenic one, how the eugenics movement gathered steam, and how the medical profession changed.
Essential Reading: Barbara Schneider, Corporal Rhetoric: Regulating Reproduction in the Progressive Era (2021).
Additional Reading: Dorothy Roberts, Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty (1998). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.