MacNamara reveals how ordinary women and men legitimized birth control through private moral action, as opposed to public advocacy, in the early twentieth century.
MacNamara reveals how ordinary women and men legitimized birth control through private moral action, as opposed to public advocacy, in the early twent...
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.
With a novel focus on the words and deeds of ordinary Americans, Trent MacNamara explores the democratic underpinnings of birth control's legitimacy i...