Reproductive Wrongs
A Short History of Bad Ideas About Women
$44.46
- Hardcover
240 pages
- Release Date
10 April 2026
Summary
The belief that granting women reproductive freedom poses a threat to “traditional” values is a dangerous myth that has long prospered in American politics, providing justification for increasing control over women’s bodies and lives. How did such damaging ideas arise?
In Reproductive Wrongs, acclaimed translator and cultural historian Sarah Ruden exposes how ideologies that oppress women and families in the service of power took hold. Ruden traces a sweeping history through …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781324075905 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1324075902 |
| Author: | Sarah Ruden |
| Publisher: | W W Norton & Co Ltd |
| Imprint: | Liveright Publishing Corporation |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 10 April 2026 |
| Weight: | 362g |
| Dimensions: | 29mm x 217mm x 147mm |
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Critics Review
Bold and brilliant, witty and original, a revelation. Ruden’s energy lights up her subjects and makes them crackle. If you love women and history, this book is for you.–Rosalind Miles, author of Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women’s History of the WorldWith the right mix of humor and outrage, Sarah Ruden takes us on a sobering tour of western culture’s ever more sinister arguments for controlling women’s fertility. This is a bracing reminder of what we are up against in the fight for reproductive rights.–Sheila Murnaghan, Alfred Reginald Allen Memorial Professor of Greek at University of Pennsylvania
About The Author
Sarah Ruden
Sarah Ruden is a leading translator of the ancient literature of the West. She received her PhD in classical philology from Harvard University and has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, among other honors. She lives in Connecticut.
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