Birth Control and American Modernity: A History of Popular Ideas

ISBN-13: 9781108460538 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 318 str.

Trent MacNamara

Opis

With a novel focus on the words and deeds of ordinary Americans, Trent MacNamara explores the democratic underpinnings of birth control's legitimacy in America. He charts a mass movement in which men as well as women built a new reproductive ethic around hotly contested ideas about time, money, divinity, family, and health.

Recenzje

'In his novel approach to examining birth control, MacNamara is quite successful in his attempts to bridge the gap between demographic and narrative histories of the topic. He focuses on why Americans chose to adopt methods to control fertility during the first half of the 20th century but also includes considerable information regarding the history of humans' attempts to prevent pregnancy, dating from antiquity to the present … The book also contains an appendix with detailed information and a bibliography that should be useful to scholars … Recommended.' J. M. Benowitz, Choice

Spis treści

1. The long history of birth control; 2. Race suicide: the moral economy of birth control, 1903–08; 3. Sensible as spinach: the moral economy of birth control, 1927–35; 4. Dear friend: citizen letters to birth controllers; 5. Missionary work: touring America for birth control; 6. Marriage as it is: birth control on the radio; 7. Conclusion and epilogue.