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On My Desk Now: Why I’ve Gone Back to Read Essays I Wrote About Reproductive Rights and Masculinity Almost Forty Years Ago

My point was that any “reproductive right” men wanted to claim had to be rooted in a distinction they could control between the erotic and reproductive capacities of their bodies in the context of heterosexual intercourse, not in asserting a right to control the bodies of women.
Richard Jeffrey Newman

by Richard Jeffrey Newman

On My Desk Now: Why I’ve Gone Back to Read Essays I Wrote About Reproductive Rights and Masculinity Almost Forty Years Ago
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