@article{351834,
      recid = {351834},
      author = {Engelman, Peter.},
      title = {A history of the birth control movement in America  [electronic resource] /},
      publisher = {Praeger,},
      address = {Santa Barbara, Calif. :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xxiii, 231 p.) :},
      year = {2011},
      note = {Description based on print version record.},
      abstract = {The women-led birth control movement defied the law to  advocate one of the most controversial ideas in modern  times: that women should have control over if and when to  have children. The movement overcame government suppression  and vigorous religious and moral opposition to insure that  contraception became a necessary component of modern  healthcare.  A History of the Birth Control Movement in  America tells the extraordinary story of a group of  reformers dedicated to making contraception legal,  accessible, and acceptable. This engrossing narrative  details how Margaret Sanger's campaign beginning in 1914 to  challenge anti obscenity laws criminalizing the  distribution of contraceptive information grew into one of  the most far reaching social reform movements in American  history.  The book opens with a discussion of the history  of birth control methods and the criminalization of  contraception and abortion in the 19th century. Its core,  however, is an exciting narrative of the campaign in the  20th century, vividly recalling the arrests and  indictments, banned publications, imprisonments,  confiscations, clinic raids, mass meetings, and courtroom  dramas that publicized the cause across the nation.  Attention is paid to the movement's thorny alliances with  medicine and eugenics and especially to its success in  precipitating a profound shift in sexual attitudes that  turned the use of contraception into an acceptable social  practice. Finally, the birth control movement is linked to  court won privacy protections and the present day movement  for reproductive rights. --Book Jacket.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/351834},
}