Books featured here deal with such topics as the family, sexuality, abortion, euthanasia, feminism, gender studies, and the like.
Antonio, Gene, The AIDS Cover-up? The Real and Alarming Facts About AIDS. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1986, 1987. 253pp.
Besides providing a wealth of information on AIDS -- how the virus operates; how it spreads; how epidemic it is; prospects for a cure; who is most at risk -- this book also focuses on how the media distorts or covers up our knowledge about the disease, and how legislators, influenced by gay lobbyists, have been impeded from effectively checking the spread of AIDS. This is a well-researched and well-documented book about a major world health problem.
Berger, Brigitte and Peter L. Berger, The War Over the Family: Capturing the Middle Ground. Garden City, New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1983. 252pp.
What is the role, place and value of the family? Competing voices have sought to answer these questions. The Bergers analyse three viewpoints -- the leftist/feminist; the pro-family; and the "value-free" perspective -- and discuss the history of families. They argue that strong families are important both for individuals and for society. An important defence of the "bourgeois family", by two leading sociologists -- husband and wife.
Davidson, Nicholas, The Failure of Feminism. Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books, 1988. 392pp.
The message of this book is simple, says Davidson: "Men and women are different. What is required is not feminism but familism, not confrontation but co-operation between the sexes. Not the destruction of gender roles, but their dignification; not the ruin of the family, but its restoration." The book examines the American feminist movement, explore new perspectives in science and gender, and proposes a post-feminist agenda. A cogent critique of modern feminism.
Davis, John Jefferson, Abortion and the Christian: What Every Believer Should Know. Philipsburg, New Jersey: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, 1984. 125pp.
Briefly yet competently Davis deals with the ethical, medical, social and biblical dimensions of abortion, from a decidedly pro-life perspective. Legislative developments since Roe v. Wade are also covered. A good critique of the abortion "solution" -- a solution which claims the lives of 1.5 million unborn children every year in America.
Dector, Midge, The New Chastity and Other Arguments Against Women's Liberation. New York: Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1972. 188pp.
All the myths of the women's lib movement are here brilliantly shattered. And all the leaders of the movement -- Steinem, Friedan, Greer, de Beauvoir, et.al. -- are unsparingly critiqued. A valuable debunking of many of the movement's weaknesses and excesses. Dector is Director of the Committee for the Free World, and married to Norman Podhoretz.
Gallagher, Maggie, Enemies of Eros: How the Sexual Revolution is Kitting Family, Marriage, and Sex and What We Can Do About It. Chicago: Bonus Books, 1989. 283pp.
Feminism and the sexual revolution, which have attempted to eliminate gender stereotypes and to perfect sexual freedom, have not liberated women, argues Gallagher, but have enslaved them. The androgynous ideal of sexual equality has proven harmful to all of us, but to women in particular.
Gilder, George, Men and Marriage. Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing, 1986. 219pp.
This is a major revision of Gilder's Sexual Suicide, published in 1973. It is a major assault on feminism and sexual liberalism. Meaty chapters discuss homosexuality; the family; marriage; the biological differences between men and women; women and work; and sexual politics. An outstanding vindication of marriage, the family and traditional moral values. An important and much needed work.
Grant, George, Grand Illusions: The Legacy of Planned Parenthood. Brentwood, Tennessee: Wolgemuth and Hyatt, 1988. 355pp.
This is a much-needed full-length expose of the history, philosophy, goals and tactics of Planned Parenthood. With a mass of documentation Grant demonstrates the real agenda of Planned Parenthood -- an agenda which is anti-family, anti-traditional moral and religious values, and in fact anti-life. This study also looks at the finances, politics, public relations and priorities of the "world's oldest, largest, and best-organized provider of abortion and birth control services". A damning indictment of a dangerous movement.
Hensley, Jeff Lane, ed., The Zero People. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Servant Books, 1983. 310pp.
Richard John Neuhaus, George Will, Michael Novak, C. Everett Koop and Malcolm Muggeridge are just some of the authors featured in this volume. They look at a number of aspects of the abortion debate, all from a pro-life perspective. Roe v. Wade, population growth, infanticide and euthanasia, medical and theological considerations are among the various issues covered. A good compilation ol pro-life argumentation.
Koop, C. Everett, The Right to Live, the Right to Die. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House, 1976. 124pp.
Koop is surgeon-in-chief at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He was the United States Surgeon General from 1981 to 1989. In this volume Koop examines the issues of abortion and euthanasia. Using the sanctity of human life as his frame of reference, Koop studies the social, medical, theological and legal aspects of these two contemporary problems. Brief but potent remarks by someone well-qualified to speak out on such issues.
Levin, Michael, Feminism and Freedom. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Books, 1987. 336pp.
In this volume the philosophy professor from City College of New York challenges a number of assumptions of the radical feminist movement. In denying innate sexual differences, feminists resort to social and legal coercion -- e.g. affirmative action -- to enforce their egalitarian vision. Levin examines such coercion, and its corresponding infringements upon personal liberty, in such areas as education, family life, sports and the military. A provocative and challenging rejoinder to militant feminism.
McNamee, Lawrence J. and Brian F. McNamee, AIDS: The Nation's First Politically Protected Disease. La Habra, California: National Medical Legal Publishing House, 1988. 182pp.
Stringent and sensible measures such as isolation have been used to curtail epidemics of the past like the bubonic plague, yellow fever and smallpox. Why are such wise, yet tough, measures not being used today to control the AIDS epidemic? Because "self interest groups, as exemplified by the gay community, have influenced representatives of the medical community, politicians, and a sympathetic national press in a misguided effort to obscure public focus and protect a lifestyle". As a result, AIDS has become "the first politically protected disease in history". A detailed look at AIDS and its legal and political ramifications, by two practising physicians.
Nathanson, Bernard N., Aborting America. Garden City, New York: Double Day and Company, 1979. 320pp.
Dr Nathanson, a prominent obstetrician and gynaecologist, was for years a leading pro-abortionist. Yet by 1974 he was having second thoughts, being "deeply troubled by my own increasing certainty that I had in fact presided over 60,000 deaths". Now a committed pro-lifer, Nathanson here presents the story of his involvement in the abortion industry, and his defection from its ranks. An important book.
Noonan, John T., A Private Choice: Abortion in America in the Seventies. New York: The Free Press, 1979. 244pp.
The Supreme Court decision of 22 January 1973 concerning abortion is the subject of this book. Noonan assesses the social, legal and ethical consequences of this ruling. A detailed and comprehensive examination of a Court ruling which is "so mistaken in its foundations, so far-reaching in its malignant consequences, and so deadly in its exercise". Noonan is a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Noonan, John T., ed., The Morality of Abortion: Legal and Historical Perspectives. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1970. 276pp.
In September of 1967 an international conference on abortion was held in Washington, of which this book is an outcome. Noonan, Paul Ramsey, and five other authors explore the legal, ethical, theological and historical aspects of the abortion debate. A learned and informative set of articles arguing against abortion.
Reagan, Ronald, Abortion and the Conscience of a Nation. Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers., 1984. 95pp.
This essay, originally published in the important pro-life journal, Human Life Review, is Reagan's attempt to stimulate public awareness of one of contemporary society's more abhorrent practices. Included in this slim volume are essays by C. Everett Koop and Malcolm Muggeridge which also appeared in the Review. A good set of essays on the abortion problem.
Reardon, David C., Aborted Women: Silent No More. Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1987. 373pp.
Reardon spent three years studying the lives of 252 women who had abortions only to later deeply regret them. All these women testify to the dangerous effects of abortion -- physical and psychological. These women all agree that abortion is never easy and never safe; that abortion has become a tool for manipulating and exploiting women; and that abortion is harmful both physically and mentally. This book also exposes the greed and callousness of the abortion industry. This book is a searing indictment of abortion as seen by its chief victims (next to the babies). Sickening but necessary reading.
Scruton, Roger, Sexual Desire: A Philosophical Investigation. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986. 428pp.
Traditional sexual morality, long out of vogue in Western society is here capably and eloquently defended by a leading British conservative philosopher. Sexual desire, argues Scruton, cannot be detached from moral values. In promoting this thesis Scruton examines a number of related subjects, including love, personhood, human sexuality, sex and gender, and morality. A ground-breaking work by a first-rate mind.
Sobran, Joseph, Single Issues: Essays on the Crucial Social Questions. New York: The Human Life Press, 1983. 189pp.
This is a collection of essays on sexual ethics, which includes some penetrating pro-life argumentation. These essays were originally published in The Human Life Review, 1975 to 1982. Sobran is an editor of National Review, and a leading conservative thinker.
Sutton, Ray, Who Owns the Family? God or the State? Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1986. 194pp.
What are some biblical principles concerning the role, nature and value of the family? Sutton, a Texan pastor, discusses the place of the family, church and state in modern society. He shows how the family is under siege today, and how Christians can reverse this trend. Home-schooling, marriage, parents' rights, inheritance laws, feminism, homosexuality, and Planned Parenthood are among the topics treated. This is volume three of the Biblical Blueprints Series.
Willke, J.C. and Barbara Willke, Abortion: Questions and Answers. Cincinnati: Hayes Publishing Company, 1985, 1988. 324pp.
First written in 1971, and in its 24th printing, this is one of the most helpful, detailed and exhaustive discussions of abortion available. Some of the many topics covered include: fetal development, abortion methods, infanticide and euthanasia, Roe v. Wade, adoption, cases of rape and incest, the Pro-Life Movement, and Fetal experimentation. A well-researched and well-documented volume.
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