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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, when half of the United States population is losing access to basic human rights.

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Sarah Ruden is an award-winning classics scholar, a poet, and a writer on religion and culture. She is the author of Vergil: The Poet's Life and numerous translations of Greek and Roman works. She lives in Hamden, Connecticut. Eva Wilhelm is a classically trained stage actor, with two decades of theater experience, primarily in Washington, D.C., and Chicago; she has worked with theaters like The Folger Theatre, Studio Theatre, The Shakespeare Theatre, and The Court Theatre. Eva has recorded over a hundred audiobooks for various producers, and teaches everything from ""Acting for Business Professionals"" to ""Shakespeare Scene Study"" and ""Voice for the Microphone"" for The Shakespeare Theatre, Howard University, and other educational institutions.

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