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BIRTH CONTROL AND AMERICAN MODERNITY : a history of popular ideas.

Author: TRENT MACNAMARA
Publisher: [S.l.] : CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, 2019.
Edition/Format:   Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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With a novel focus on the words and deeds of ordinary Americans, Trent MacNamara explores the democratic underpinnings of birth control's legitimacy in America. He charts a mass movement in which men  Read more...

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Genre/Form: History
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: TRENT MACNAMARA
ISBN: 1108460534 9781108460538
OCLC Number: 1124771942
Description: 1 volume : illustrations (black and white)
Contents: 1. The long history of birth control; 2. Race suicide: the moral economy of birth control, 1903-08; 3. Sensible as spinach: the moral economy of birth control, 1927-35; 4. Dear friend: citizen letters to birth controllers; 5. Missionary work: touring America for birth control; 6. Marriage as it is: birth control on the radio; 7. Conclusion and epilogue.

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'MacNamara engages meaningfully with scholarship about birth control and demography outside of the United States, and animates this intellectual history with people, stories, and places that we don't Read more...

 
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