false 98901 0 0 The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction. She lives in New York. "]]> 169744 067400535X 9780674005358 6 <![CDATA[The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172368922m/169744.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172368922s/169744.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/169744.The_Great_Arizona_Orphan_Abduction 3.88 56 The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction tells this disturbing and dramatic tale to illuminate the creation of racial boundaries along the Mexican border. Clifton/Morenci, Arizona, was a "wild West" boomtown, where the mines and smelters pulled in thousands of Mexican immigrant workers. Racial walls hardened as the mines became big business and whiteness became a marker of superiority. These already volatile race and class relations produced passions that erupted in the "orphan incident." To the Anglos of Clifton/Morenci, placing a white child with a Mexican family was tantamount to child abuse, and they saw their kidnapping as a rescue.

Women initiated both sides of this confrontation. Mexican women agreed to take in these orphans, both serving their church and asserting a maternal prerogative; Anglo women believed they had to "save" the orphans, and they organized a vigilante squad to do it. In retelling this nearly forgotten piece of American history, Linda Gordon brilliantly recreates and dissects the tangled intersection of family and racial values, in a gripping story that resonates with today's conflicts over the "best interests of the child."

]]> 98901 3.82 517 17 1999 374586 046501707X 9780465017072 2 <![CDATA[Dear Sisters]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174268090m/374586.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174268090s/374586.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/374586.Dear_Sisters 3.77 26 --Regina Marler ]]> 98901 3.82 517 17 2001 777890 0674669827 9780674669826 1 <![CDATA[Pitied but Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/777890.Pitied_but_Not_Entitled_Single_Mothers_and_the_History_of_Welfare 3.80 15 With three-fourths of all poor families headed by women and about 54 percent of single-mother families living below the poverty line, a rethinking of the fundamental assumptions of our much-reviled welfare program is clearly necessary. Here, Linda Gordon unearths the tangled roots of AFDC (Aid to Families with Dependent Children). Competing visions of how and to whom public aid should be distributed were advanced by male bureaucrats, black women's organizations, and white progressive feminists. From their policy debates emerged a two-track system of public aid, in which single mothers got highly stigmatized "welfare" while other groups, such as the aged and the unemployed, received "entitlements."

Gordon strips today's welfare debates of decades of irrelevant and irrational accretion, revealing that what appeared progressive in the 1930s is antiquated in the 1990s. She shows that only by shedding false assumptions, and rethinking the nature of poverty, can we advance a truly effective welfare reform.

]]> 98901 3.82 517 17 1994 777893 0252074599 9780252074592 1 <![CDATA[The Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control Politics in America]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178264445m/777893.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178264445s/777893.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/777893.The_Moral_Property_of_Women_A_History_of_Birth_Control_Politics_in_America 4.33 9 Choice Magazine's Outstanding Academic Books for 2004 The only book to cover the entire history of birth control and the intense controversies about reproduction rights that have raged in the United States for more than 150 years, The Moral Property of Women is a thoroughly updated and revised version of the award-winning historian Linda Gordon's classic history Woman's Body, Woman's Right, originally published in 1976.
Arguing that reproduction control has always been central to women's status, The Moral Property of Women shows how opposition to it has long been part of the conservative opposition to gender equality. From its roots in folk medicine and in a campaign so broad it constituted a grassroots social movement at some points in history, to its legitimization through public policy, the widespread acceptance of birth control has involved a major reorientation of sexual values.
Gordon puts today's reproduction control controversies--foreign aid for family planning, the abortion debates, teenage pregnancy and childbearing, stem-cell research--into historical perspective and shows how the campaign to legalize abortion is part of a 150-year-old struggle over reproductive rights, a struggle that has followed a circuitous path. Beginning with the "folk medicine" of birth control, Gordon discusses how the backlash against the first women's rights movement of the 1800s prohibited both abortion and contraception about 130 years ago. She traces the campaign for legal reproduction control from the 1870s to the present and argues that attitudes toward birth control have been inseparable from family values, especially standards about sexuality and gender equality.
Highlighting both leaders and followers in the struggle, The Moral Property of Women chronicles the contributions of well-known reproduction control pioneers such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, and Emma Goldman, as well as lesser- known campaigners including the utopian socialist Robert Dale Owen, the three doctors Foote--Edward Bliss Foote, Edward Bond Foote, and Mary Bond Foote--the civil libertarian Mary Ware Dennett, and the daring Jane project of the 1970s, in which Chicago women's liberation activists performed illegal abortions.
</div>]]> 98901 3.82 517 17 2002 6634092 0393057305 9780393057300 3 <![CDATA[Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6634092-dorothea-lange 4.00 9 Dorothea Lange’s photographs define how we remember the Depression generation; now an evocative biography defines her creative struggles and enduring legacy. We all know Dorothea Lange’s iconic photos—the “Migrant Mother” holding her child, the gaunt men forlornly waiting in breadlines—but few know the arc of her extraordinary life. In this sweeping account, renowned historian Linda Gordon charts Lange’s journey from polio-ridden child to wife and mother, to San Francisco portrait photographer, to chronicler of the Great Depression and World War II. Gordon uses Lange’s life to anchor a moving social history of twentieth-century America, re-creating the bohemian world of San Francisco, the Dust Bowl, and the Japanese American internment camps. She explores Lange’s growing radicalization as she embraced the democratic power of the camera, and she examines Lange’s entire body of work, reproducing more than one hundred images, many of them previously unseen and some of them formerly suppressed. Lange reminds us that beauty can be found in unlikely places, and that to respond to injustice, we must first simply learn how to see it. 128 photos.]]> 98901 3.82 517 17 2009 1181782 0252070798 9780252070792 1 <![CDATA[Heroes of Their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence--Boston, 1880-1960]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181697209m/1181782.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181697209s/1181782.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1181782.Heroes_of_Their_Own_Lives_The_Politics_and_History_of_Family_Violence_Boston_1880_1960 4.00 7 98901 3.82 517 17 1988 502919 0140131272 9780140131277 0 <![CDATA[Woman's Body, Woman's Right: Revised Edition]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/502919.Woman_s_Body_Woman_s_Right_Revised_Edition 4.00 1 98901 3.82 517 17 1976 4017067 0299126609 9780299126605 0 <![CDATA[Women, the State, and Welfare]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4017067.Women_the_State_and_Welfare 2.00 1 98901 3.82 517 17 1990 4030295 0873956540 9780873956543 0 <![CDATA[Cossack Rebellions: Social Turmoil in the Sixteenth Century Ukraine]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4030295.Cossack_Rebellions_Social_Turmoil_in_the_Sixteenth_Century_Ukraine 0.0 0 98901 3.82 517 17 1983 777898 0689816790 9780689816796 0 <![CDATA[The Witch's Revenge]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178264446m/777898.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178264446s/777898.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/777898.The_Witch_s_Revenge 0.0 0 98901 3.82 517 17 1997