Selected Works

biography
Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits
The life of the great photographer Dorothea Lange
History
"The Perils of Innocence, or What’s Wrong with Putting Children First"
Why children-first policies often hurt children
"The New Deal Was a Good Idea, We Should Try It"
Mistakes of the New Deal that Should Not be Repeated Now
Heroes of Their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence
How public and private institutions attempted to copy with child abuse and violence against women.
The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction
When Irish orphans were placed in Mexican-American homes in Arizona in 1904, Anglos responded by kidnapping them.
The Moral Property of Women: The History of Birth Control Politics in America
Reproduction control has been controversial in the US for 150 years, and this book explains why.
History; Photography
IMPOUNDED: Dorothea Lange’s Censored Photographs of the Japanese American Internment during World War II, co-authored with Gary Okihiro
Commissioned by the Army to document the internment, Lange’s photographs were impounded and never before published.

The Moral Property of Women: The History of Birth Control Politics in America

This volume, the third substantially revised and updated version of Woman's Body, Woman's Right, is the only truly comprehensive study of the political and social history of birth control in the United States. It traces the history of birth control from the point of view of "those at the center of the conflict, namely women seeking sexual and reproductive self-determination." It is so thorough, so complete, and so well argued that it promises to set a new standard for scholarship on the political history of birth control. Journal of American Culture