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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction: Easier in Groups -- The American Women's Movement and the National Council of Women's Organizations -- 2. Precursors: Genders, Matrixes, and Coalitions -- 3. More Than the Sum of the Parts: NCWO History and Structure -- 4. Master Narratives While the Masters Golf -- 5. Working the Gender Gap: The NCWO and Voter Engagement, 2006-2014 (with Annie Boiter-Jolley, coauthor) -- 6. Gender and Safety Nets: Reforming and Saving Social Security -- 7. Health Care Reform: Being a Woman Is Not a Preexisting Condition -- 8. The NCWO and Global Feminism -- Conclusion. Pushing Back Neoliberal Agendas via Women's Coalitional Activism -- Appendix A. Interviews Conducted as of December 12, 2016 -- Appendix B. NCWO Meetings Attended -- Appendix C. NCWO-Related Events Attended and Observed -- Appendix D. Interviews, Meetings, and Observations by Year -- Notes -- References -- Index

As reproductive power finds its way into the hands of medical professionals, lobbyists, and policymakers, the geographies of pregnancy are shifting, and the boundaries need to be redrawn, argues Laura R. Woliver. Across a politically charged backdrop of reproductive issues, Woliver exposes strategies that claim to uphold the best interests of children, families, and women but in reality complicate women's struggles to have control over their own bodies. Utilizing feminist standpoint theory and promoting a feminist ethic of care, Woliver looks at the ways modern reproductive politics are shaped by long-standing debates on abortion and adoption, surrogacy arrangements, new reproductive technologies, medical surveillance, and the mapping of the human genome