Reproductive Wrongs: A Short History of Bad Ideas About Women

A bracing feminist chronicle of the history of the West told through seven texts, exposing where our most virulent ideas about women came from.

The dangerous belief that granting women reproductive freedom poses a threat to "traditional" values is a myth that has long prospered in American politics, playing an especially vicious role in the development of totalitarianism in the West. How did such damaging ideas arise?

InReproductive Wrongs, acclaimed translator and cultural historian Sarah Ru...