Feminist Campaigns for Birth Control and Abortion Rights in Britain

Author: Lesley Hoggart
Published: February 2003
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr.
ISBN: 0773468684
Hardcover Book
Number of Pages: 292

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Exploring the development of British social policy from the perspective of the grass roots movements for women's reproductive control, Hoggart (social policy and social science research, Middlesex U., UK) compares the Worker's Birth Control Group of the 1920s and the National Abortion Campaign of the 1970s. She focuses on the efforts of both campaigns to combine demands for individual body control with challenges to the entire social organization of reproduction. She analyzes the changing class composition of the movements as being a prime reason for shifts in emphasis related to the two demands.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
1 Feminist Action and the Politics of Reproductive Control
2 Historical and Political Setting to the Birth Control Campaign of the 1920s
3 The Workers' Birth Control Group
4 Politics of Reproductive Control 1930-1975
5 The National Abortion Campaign
6 Changes and Continuities: Feminist Politics and Reproductive Control
Bibliography
Index

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