Reproductive Wrongs: A Short History of Bad Ideas about Women Translated Icelandic Literature It takes place in the

It takes place in the eventful year of 1986 in Reykjavík when a young journalist starts digging into the disappearance of a young woman decades earlier

Árni Þórarinsson

Edited as before by author Böðvar Guðmundsson

Látra-Björg (1716-1784) was a wanderer

quickly became widespread in Iceland

Reproductive Wrongs: A Short History of Bad Ideas about Women Translated Icelandic Literature It takes place in theThe belief that granting women reproductive freedom poses a threat to "traditional" values is a dangerous myth that has long prospered in American politics, providing justification for increasing control over women's bodies and lives. 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