Tag Archives: Birth control

Mr. Collins and the Right’s War on Women

By Robin Bates | Published: September 30, 2014

Rightwing attacks on reproductive rights have their antecedents in the moralistic judgments of Mr. Collins and Mary Bennet in “Pride and Prejudice.”

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Unruly Women Playing Cards

By Robin Bates | Published: February 27, 2012

The Folger’s revival of Susanne Centlivre’s 1705 comedy about unruly women playing cards has coincided well with battles in Congress over who has the right to control women’s bodies.

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Imagine the Wife of Bath vs. Rick Santorum

By Robin Bates | Published: February 13, 2012

Candidate for the GOP presidential nominee Rick Santorum opposes birth control on the basis of natural law. Chaucer’s Wife of Bath would take his head off.

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