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A History of the Birth Control Movement in America (Hardcover, New)
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A History of the Birth Control Movement in America (Hardcover, New)
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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.
15 photographs and images of the major players in the movement and
of key publications and contraceptive devices A selected
bibliography and extensive end notes, providing an up-to-date
source for primary and secondary material on the birth control
movement
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