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Birth Control in Nineteenth-Century England (Hardcover)
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Birth Control in Nineteenth-Century England (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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The decline of the British birth rate was arguably the most
important social change to occur in the last decades of the
nineteenth century, but historians have shown remarkably little
interest in the phenomenon. Most of the work done on the question
has been by sociologists and reflects their assumption that the
progressive adoption of birth control was largely a matter of the
lower classes aping the behaviour of their 'betters'. Originally
published in 1978, this book argues against this interpretation. It
contends that the great interest of the nineteenth-century birth
control debate is that it reveals that there was not a growing
consensus of opinion on the question of family planning but rather
two cultural confrontations - the struggle of the middle-class
propagandists of both left and right to manipulate for political
purposes working-class attitudes towards procreation, and, on a
deeper level, the clash of the differing attitudes of men and women
towards the possibility of fertility control. The purpose of this
study is to place the idea and practice of birth control in their
social and political context, and four major factors are focused
upon to this end: the first is that the birth control issue played
a key role in the confrontation between Malthusians, socialists,
eugenists and feminists. Secondly, the whole question of
contraception led to a conflict between doctors, quacks, midwives
and ordinary men and women seeking to control their own fertility.
Thirdly, men and women belong to different sexual cultures and
necessarily respond in different ways to the possibility of family
regulation, and finally, despite the claims of some that birth
control was an innovation, it was the pre-industrial forms of
fertility control - including abortion - which brought the birth
rate down.
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