The 1960s revolutionized American contraceptive practice.
Diaphragms, jellies, and condoms with high failure rates gave way
to newer choices of the Pill, IUD, and sterilization. "Fit to Be
Tied" provides a history of sterilization and what would prove to
become, at once, socially divisive and a popular form of birth
control.
During the first half of the twentieth century, sterilization
(tubal ligation and vasectomy) was a tool of eugenics. Individuals
who endorsed crude notions of biological determinism sought to
control the reproductive decisions of women they considered "unfit"
by nature of race or class, and used surgery to do so.
Incorporating first-person narratives, court cases, and official
records, Rebecca M. Kluchin examines the evolution of forced
sterilization of poor women, especially women of color, in the
second half of the century and contrasts it with demands for
contraceptive sterilization made by white women and men. She
chronicles public acceptance during an era of reproductive and
sexual freedom, and the subsequent replacement of the eugenics
movement with "neo-eugenic" standards that continued to influence
American medical practice, family planning, public policy, and
popular sentiment.
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