Birth Control in Nineteenth-Century England

ISBN-13: 9781032278995 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 262 str.

Angus McLaren

Opis

Originally published in 1978, this title contends that the great interest of the 19th-century birth control debate is that it reveals that there was not a growing consensus of opinion on the question of family planning but rather two cultural confrontations.

Spis treści

Preface.  Introduction.  Part 1: Background to the Birth Control Debate  1. Quackery and Control of Fertility in Eighteenth-Century England  Part 2: Contraception and the Class Struggle  2. The Beginning of the Birth Control Debate  3. Contraception and Working-Class Movements  4. Birth Control and Medical Self-help  5. Birth Control and the Morality of Married Life  Part 3: Neo-Malthusianism and its Late Nineteenth-Century Critics  6. The Malthusian League  7. Birth Control and the British Medical Profession, 1850-1914  8. Birth Control and Eugenics  9. Socialists and Birth Control: the Case of the Social Democratic Federation  10. Socialists and Birth Control: Freedom or Efficiency  11. Feminism and Fertility Control  Part 4: Theory and Practice  12. Birth Control and the Working Classes  13. Abortion in England, 1890-1914.  Conclusion.  Index.