Author: Margaret Sanger
Publisher:
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Category : Birth control
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Medical and Eugenic Aspects of Birth Control
Margaret Sanger's Eugenic Legacy
Author: Angela Franks
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786454040
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Margaret Sanger, the American birth-control and population-control advocate who founded Planned Parenthood, stands like a giant among her contemporaries. With her dominating yet winning personality, she helped generate shifts of opinion on issues that were not even publicly discussed prior to her activism, while her leadership was arguably the single most important factor in achieving social and legislative victories that set the parameters for today's political discussion of family-planning funding, population-control aid, and even sex education. This work addresses Sanger's ideas concerning birth control, eugenics, population control, and sterilization against the backdrop of the larger eugenic context.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786454040
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Margaret Sanger, the American birth-control and population-control advocate who founded Planned Parenthood, stands like a giant among her contemporaries. With her dominating yet winning personality, she helped generate shifts of opinion on issues that were not even publicly discussed prior to her activism, while her leadership was arguably the single most important factor in achieving social and legislative victories that set the parameters for today's political discussion of family-planning funding, population-control aid, and even sex education. This work addresses Sanger's ideas concerning birth control, eugenics, population control, and sterilization against the backdrop of the larger eugenic context.
The Sterilization Movement and Global Fertility in the Twentieth Century
Author: Ian R. Dowbiggin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199719993
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Many would be surprised to learn that the preferred method of birth control in the United States today is actually surgical sterilization. This book takes an historical look at the sterilization movement in post-World War II America, a revolution in modern contraceptive behavior. Focusing on leaders of the sterilization movement from the 1930's through the turn of the century, this book explores the historic linkages between environment, civil liberties, eugenics, population control, sex education, marriage counseling, and birth control movements in the 20th-century United States. Sterilization has been variously advocated as a medical procedure for defusing the "population bomb," expanding individual rights, liberating women from the fear of pregnancy, strengthening marriage, improving the quality of life of the mentally disabled, or reducing the incidence of hereditary disorders. From an historical standpoint, support for free and unfettered access to sterilization services has aroused opposition in some circles, and was considered a "liberal cause" in post-World War II America. This story demonstrates how a small group of reformers helped to alter traditional notions of gender and sexuality.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199719993
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Many would be surprised to learn that the preferred method of birth control in the United States today is actually surgical sterilization. This book takes an historical look at the sterilization movement in post-World War II America, a revolution in modern contraceptive behavior. Focusing on leaders of the sterilization movement from the 1930's through the turn of the century, this book explores the historic linkages between environment, civil liberties, eugenics, population control, sex education, marriage counseling, and birth control movements in the 20th-century United States. Sterilization has been variously advocated as a medical procedure for defusing the "population bomb," expanding individual rights, liberating women from the fear of pregnancy, strengthening marriage, improving the quality of life of the mentally disabled, or reducing the incidence of hereditary disorders. From an historical standpoint, support for free and unfettered access to sterilization services has aroused opposition in some circles, and was considered a "liberal cause" in post-World War II America. This story demonstrates how a small group of reformers helped to alter traditional notions of gender and sexuality.
The Case for Birth Control
Author: Margaret Sanger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A History of the Birth Control Movement in America
Author: Peter C. Engelman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This narrative history of one of the most far-reaching social movements in the 20th century shows how it defied the law and made the use of contraception an acceptable social practice—and 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. The engrossing tale 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 and medical practice. Finally, the birth control movement is linked to court-won privacy protections and the present-day movement for reproductive rights.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This narrative history of one of the most far-reaching social movements in the 20th century shows how it defied the law and made the use of contraception an acceptable social practice—and 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. The engrossing tale 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 and medical practice. Finally, the birth control movement is linked to court-won privacy protections and the present-day movement for reproductive rights.
Choice and Coercion
Author: Johanna Schoen
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 145873157X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 145873157X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The Medical, Social, Economic, Moral and Religious Aspects of Birth Control
Author: Sigard Adolphus Knopf
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birth control
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birth control
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
The Sixth International Neo-Malthusian and Birth Control Conference
Author: Margaret Sanger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birth control
Languages : en
Pages : 11
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birth control
Languages : en
Pages : 11
Book Description
Birth Control Politics in the United States, 1916-1945
Author: Carole Ruth McCann
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801486128
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
In a disturbing behind-the-scenes history of the early achievements of Margaret Sanger's American birth control movement, Carole R. McCann scrutinizes the movement's compromises as well as its successes.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801486128
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
In a disturbing behind-the-scenes history of the early achievements of Margaret Sanger's American birth control movement, Carole R. McCann scrutinizes the movement's compromises as well as its successes.
Eugenics, Marriage and Birth Control
Author: William Josephus Robinson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description