The Boundaries Of Her Body: The Troubling History Of Women's Rights In America

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Whatever your political beliefs if you are a woman you must know what the law says about you. The Boundaries of Her Body is the definitive history of the cycle of advances and setbacks that characterizes womens rights in America. Author Debran Rowland covers emotionally charged issues with thoughtful detail offering insight into the strategies used by politicians and lobbyists to defeat long-standing law. The defeat for womens rights is an emotional and often polarized debate: A debate over what a woman is What a woman ought to be And what a woman should therefore be allowed to do Today the future of womens rights is in jeopardy. "If I had to guess at the future for women I would say we stand to lose many more significant battlesand the rights that go with themif we dont begin to abandon the niceties of a comfortable life with educated opinions and start waging the kind of aggressive no-holds-barred guerrilla war that our opponents have been riding to victory." from the Epilogue to The Boundaries of Her Body Rowland combines provocative arguments with exhaustive research and affirms that in spite of advancements the boundaries of womens bodies will continue to be a source of bitter contention in the law. "Debran Rowland brilliantly argues the continuing inequality of womens rights in America with the most meticulous and comprehensive research in our times." Betty Friedan author of The Feminine Mystique