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Introduction : birth control, the moral property of women
From folk medicine to prohibition to resistance. The prehistory of birth control. The criminals. Prudent sex : neo-malthusianism and perfectionism
Toward women's power. Voluntary motherhood : the beginnings of the birth-control movement. Social purity and eugenics. Race suicide. Continence or indulgence : doctors and the "sexual revolution". Birth control and social revolution
From women's rights to family planning. The professionalization of birth control. The depression. Planned parenthood. Birth control becomes public policy, 1945-70
Birth control in the era of second-wave feminsm. The mother controversy : abortion. Is nothing simple about reproduction control? Birth control and feminism.
From folk medicine to prohibition to resistance. The prehistory of birth control. The criminals. Prudent sex : neo-malthusianism and perfectionism
Toward women's power. Voluntary motherhood : the beginnings of the birth-control movement. Social purity and eugenics. Race suicide. Continence or indulgence : doctors and the "sexual revolution". Birth control and social revolution
From women's rights to family planning. The professionalization of birth control. The depression. Planned parenthood. Birth control becomes public policy, 1945-70
Birth control in the era of second-wave feminsm. The mother controversy : abortion. Is nothing simple about reproduction control? Birth control and feminism.