Reproductive Wrongs
A Short History of Bad Ideas About Women
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2026
Liveright Publishing Corporation (Verlag)
978-1-324-07590-5 (ISBN)
Liveright Publishing Corporation (Verlag)
978-1-324-07590-5 (ISBN)
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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?
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 her trenchant analysis of seven pieces of literature that, she argues, marked key inflection points across two thousand years. From propagandistic poetry written by Ovid in the early Roman Empire to the biography of an evangelical American “abortion survivor”, Ruden lays bare how doctrines of control over women were invented and propagated.
Scathing and vital, Reproductive Wrongs unearths the evolution of a right-wing radicalism that endures to this day.
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?
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 her trenchant analysis of seven pieces of literature that, she argues, marked key inflection points across two thousand years. From propagandistic poetry written by Ovid in the early Roman Empire to the biography of an evangelical American “abortion survivor”, Ruden lays bare how doctrines of control over women were invented and propagated.
Scathing and vital, Reproductive Wrongs unearths the evolution of a right-wing radicalism that endures to this day.
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.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 17.4.2026 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 210 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-324-07590-2 / 1324075902 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-324-07590-5 / 9781324075905 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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