Introduction: Beyond "A Woman's Right to Choose" Feminist Ideas about Reproductive Rights / Controlling Our Bodies / The Social Relations of Reproduction / Reproductive Politics, Past and Future
Part I: Fertility Control in Theory and History
1. Fertility, Gender, and Class
The Role of Technology
Malthusian Ideology and Bourgeois Culture
Birth Control in the Bourgeois Family
Class Divisions, Motherhood, and Fertility Control among the Poor
The Place of Abortion
2. Abortion and the State: Nineteenth-Century Criminalization
Falling Birthrates and Rising Abortions
The Medical Attack
The Eugenics Movement and Sterilization
Abortion, Sterilization, and the Socialist-Feminist Birth Control Movement
3. Abortion and the State: Twentieth-Century Legalization
Falling Birthrates and Rising Abortions in the 1960s and 1970s
Population Control and the Legalization of Abortion
The Role of Popular Organizing: Feminists and Libertarians
Part II: Abortion Practice in the 1970s
4. The Social and Economic Conditions of Women Who Get Abortions
Recent Trends in Abortion Practice
Class and Race Differences in Resolving Nonmarital Pregnancies
Abortion Access for Poor Women
5. Considering the Alternatives: The Problems of Contraception
The Politics of Contraception
The Inadequacies of Contraception
Abortion and Contraception
The Necessary Link
The Failure of Institutional "Delivery Systems"
6. Abortion and Heterosexual Culture: The Teenage Question
Defining Sexuality
The Role of Abortion
The Rise in Teenage Sex and Pregnancy
A Revised View
Continuities in Heterosexual Culture
Grids of Conflict and Sources of Change
Part III: Sexual Politics in the 1980s
7. The Antiabortion Movement and the Rise of the New Right
Launching the Neoconservative State
Organizational Base" Churches and Reproductive Politics
The Ideological Message: Reprivatizing Sexuality and "Preserving the Family"
8. Protecting Family Integrity: The Rightward Drift in the Courts
"Medical Necessity" versus Women's Autonomy: Roe v. Wade
Privacy Rights versus Social Justice: Medicaid Funding
Sexual Freedom versus "Authority in Their Own Household": The Rights of Minors
From Akron to Webster
9. Morality and Personhood: A Feminist Perspective
Fetuses and Persons
Toward a Feminist Concept of Personhood
Fetal Politics and False Dilemmas
10. Women's Consciousness and the Abortion Decision
Doing and Believing
The Morality of Praxis
Maternal Practice and Reproductive Consciousness
Conclusion: Feminism and the Conditions of Reproductive Freedom