Contraception and abortion in nineteenth-century America
Drawing from a wide range of private and public sources, examines how American families gradually found access to taboo information and products for controlling the size of their families from the 1830s to the 1890s when a puritan backlash made most of it illegal. Emphasizes the importance of two sh...
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press
[1994]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Story of love and family limitation: "X" for sexual intercourse
- Strategies in Colonial America
- "New" reproductive control
- Private debate goes public
- Antebellum public audience: who were they and how did they find out?
- Boom in self-help literature after 1850
- "Most fashionable" contraceptive devices
- Criminalizing reproductive control: End-of-century campaigns to disempower women
