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Linda Gordon is an American historian whose scholarship examines gender, family, social welfare, reproductive politics, and modern United States history. Her books include Woman's Body, Woman's Right, a history of birth control in the United States, and The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction, which studies the removal and adoption of children in the early twentieth century. She also wrote The Second Coming of the KKK, a history of the Ku Klux Klan's revival in the 1920s.
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What is Linda Gordon's Woman's Body, Woman's Right about?
Woman's Body, Woman's Right is a history of birth control in the United States. Linda Gordon connects reproductive politics to gender, family life, medicine, law, and social reform.
What subjects does Linda Gordon study?
Gordon studies gender, family history, social welfare, reproductive politics, and modern United States history. Her work treats birth control and welfare policy as political issues shaped by class and gender relations.
What happened in The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction?
The book examines the 1904 removal of children from New York to Arizona and the conflict over who had the right to adopt them. Gordon uses the episode to explore family authority, poverty, reform, and ideas about childhood.
Why is Linda Gordon's history of birth control significant?
It shows that access to contraception was shaped by law, activism, medicine, and social inequality rather than by technology alone. Woman's Body, Woman's Right places reproductive decisions within the broader history of American politics.
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