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020 $a9780313365096 (hardcopy : alk. paper)
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020 $a9780313365102 (ebook)
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050 00 $aHQ766.5.U5$bE54 2011
082 00 $a363.9/60973$222
100 1 $aEngelman, Peter.
245 12 $aA history of the birth control movement in America /$cPeter C. Engelman.
260 $aSanta Barbara, Calif. :$bPraeger,$cc2011.
300 $axxiii, 231 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
490 1 $aHealing society : disease, medicine, and history
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [211]-220) and index.
505 0 $aBefore "birth control" -- Birth control and free speech -- Birth control clinics -- Birth control and public acceptance.
520 $aThe 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. --
520 $aA 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. --
520 $aThe 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.
650 0 $aBirth control$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aBirth control$zUnited States$xPolitical aspects.
650 0 $aBirth control clinics$zUnited States$xHistory.
830 0 $aHealing society--disease, medicine, and history.