Adoption
Rickie Solinger
in Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What does adoption look like in the United States today?
In the middle of the twentieth century, adoption became a widespread practice in the United States when thousands of ...
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Birthing, Breast-Feeding, and Reproductive Politics
Rickie Solinger
in Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
In what settings are babies born in the United States today?
In 1900 more than 95 percent of American women gave birth at home. Fourteen years later, anesthesia, or “twilight ...
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A Brief History of Women’s Sport
Jaime Schultz
in Women's Sports: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How long have women played sport?
Women have always engaged in various sport forms. Much of our knowledge about these activities is pieced together from archeological evidence, ...
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Children and Teens Using Pornography
Shira Tarrant
in The Pornography Industry: What Everyone Needs to Know®
The issue of children and teens accessing pornography is often fraught with distress and debate. There are those who worry that easy access to porn causes harm among today’s youth. Will ...
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Contemporary Abortion III—Activism, Law, and Policy
Rickie Solinger
in Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How are state legislatures responding to abortion and satellite issues?
In recent years many state legislatures have defined abortion and efforts to limit the procedure as their ...
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Contemporary Abortion Politics I—Opinions and Science
Rickie Solinger
in Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What are the most common objections to abortion today, and how have objections changed over time?
Objections to abortion have changed over time. In the nineteenth century, before ...
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Contemporary Abortion Politics Ii—experience and Practice
Rickie Solinger
in Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is the abortion rate in the United States and how has it changed in recent years?
After 1990, the number and rate of abortions declined every year for about a decade and a ...
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Contextualizing Gender
Laura Erickson-Schroth and Benjamin Davis
in Gender:
This chapter examines feminism and gender studies. It
begins by distinguishing the different “waves” of feminism. The first wave is usually described
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Contraception
Rickie Solinger
in Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What are the most commonly used forms of contraception in the United States?
Almost all heterosexual, sexually active women have used at least one form of contraception; nearly 90 ...
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Disability and Reproductive Politics
Rickie Solinger
in Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What basic reproductive restrictions have been placed on women with disabilities in the past and today?
Historically, the medical community and general society considered disabled ...
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The Environment and Reproductive Politics
Rickie Solinger
in Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How are environmental contaminants affecting reproductive health in the United States?
No one knows for sure the relationship between contaminants and reproduction, but there are ...
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Family Building, Reproductive Technologies, and Stem Cell Research
Rickie Solinger
in Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What qualifies as a family today?
Traditionally, state governments and religious institutions made laws and rules about marriage and family that were obeyed by almost all ...
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Feminism and Reproductive Politics
Rickie Solinger
in Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Why is feminism so important to reproductive politics, and vice versa, in the United States?
Over the course of American history, questions about female fertility have typically ...
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Fetuses
Rickie Solinger
in Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Has the fetus always been the focus of anti-abortion concerns?
Anti-abortion campaigns in the illegal era focused on a number of issues, from protecting women against ...
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The Future of Gender
Laura Erickson-Schroth and Benjamin Davis
in Gender:
This chapter explores the future of gender. The
prospects for future reproductive technologies are almost beyond our imaginations. The creation
...
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The Future of Porn
Shira Tarrant
in The Pornography Industry: What Everyone Needs to Know®
The pornography industry is known to be an early adopter of technology that helps drive change across broader society. Pornography is also known for ensconcing racist, patriarchal ...
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Gender 101
Laura Erickson-Schroth and Benjamin Davis
in Gender:
This chapter provides an overview of gender. It also
considers the gender binary, gender nonconformity, transgender people, and sexuality.
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Gender and Biology
Laura Erickson-Schroth and Benjamin Davis
in Gender:
This chapter discusses the biological differences
between males and females. Typical male and female bodies differ from each other in predictable
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Gender and Sport
Jaime Schultz
in Women's Sports: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Do the terms “sex” and “gender” mean the same thing?
The terms “sex” and “gender” are often used interchangeably, but there are important differences between them. Sex refers to ...
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Gender, Medicine, and Psychology
Laura Erickson-Schroth and Benjamin Davis
in Gender:
This chapter focuses on the medical and psychological
aspects of gender, beginning with a discussion on gender development. An unspoken assumption in
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