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Contraception: Securing Feminism’S Promise, Naomi R. Cahn, June Carbone
Contraception: Securing Feminism’S Promise, Naomi R. Cahn, June Carbone
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
This paper traces the history of attempts to restrict contraception, the legal events securing widespread access to contraception and their importance to a generation of college-aged women, the short-lived nature of the consensus that produced them, and the potential of the issue to serve as a rallying point for a revitalized feminism. It explores the hypocrisy of a system that, whatever its values, makes reproductive autonomy readily available for the affluent and the sophisticated and increasingly beyond the reach of the most vulnerable. Finally, it considers the potential of contraception as a reframing device, capable of exposing the hypocrisy of …
Family Classes: Rethinking Contraceptive Choice, Naomi R. Cahn, June Carbone
Family Classes: Rethinking Contraceptive Choice, Naomi R. Cahn, June Carbone
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
The political attention paid to moral values - in the context of the high profile fights over abortion, homosexuality, and abstinence education - has developed over the past quarter century in ideological terms as though race and class no longer existed. In fact, the changing understandings that attend family formation reflect a long term shift in the pathways to middle class life which has created a new technocratic elite - an elite that invests heavily in both men and women’s advanced degrees, and has remade family life to its advantage. The success of the new model, which we call the …