A horrifying exemplar of the ways in which eugenicists and the medical establishment conspire to manipulate women’s fertility, so that only the “right” sort of women reproduce and do it in abundance. Ann Cooper Hewitt had the misfortune of being born to a mother whose only interest in marriage was as a money-making proposition; after her husband’s death, Maryon Hewitt utilized California’s sterilization law to ensure she’d never have to compete with her grandchildren for control of the family’s wealth, by having Ann very publicly diagnosed as a “moron” and a sexual deviant and thus a candidate for permanent sterilization just shy of Ann’s 21st birthday. Ann never recovered from her mother’s abuse, neglect, and manipulation. Though she sought satisfaction in the CA court system, the emotional toll of having her and her mother’s reputations dragged through the sensational press coverage of 1936, and the courts’ and doctors’ bias toward medical and psychological “experts” soon wore her down; Ann gave up the fight to have her bodily autonomy affirmed. Farley traces Ann’s and Maryon’s lives post-1936, layering in the history of enforced sterilization for women of color and poor women in the 1920s through the present and enforced childbearing for middle-class white women in the same period. Seen as two ends of the same spectrum, these attempts to control women’s reproduction are depressingly familiar. Farley can be repetitive and frustratingly imprecise with dates and events, and the book would have benefited from endnotes and cited sources.