Feminist Campaigns for Birth Control and Abortion Rights in Britain

Exploring the development of British social policy from the perspective of the grass roots movements for women’s reproductive control, Hoggart (social policy and social science research, Middlesex U., UK) compares the Worker’s Birth Control Group of the 1920s and the National Abortion Campaign of the 1970s. She focuses on the efforts of both campaigns to combine demands for individual body control with challenges to the entire social organization of reproduction. She analyzes the changing class composition of the movements as being a prime reason for shifts in emphasis related to the two demands. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)