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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press
[1994]
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| See on Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991003980889708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
| Summary: | 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 shadowy networks, medical practitioners known as Thomsonians and water-curists, and iconoclastic freethinkers |
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 373 páginas : ilustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas (páginas 357-365) e índice. |
| ISBN: | 9780801428494 9780801484339 |
