Angus Mclaren

Birth Control in Nineteenth-Century England

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Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1978, this title contends that the great interest of the 19th-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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2024
• Abmessung: 216mm x 138mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032279039
• ISBN-10: 1032279036
• Artikelnr.: 70437410

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Introduction. Part 1: Background to the Birth Control Debate 1.
Quackery and Control of Fertility in Eighteenth-Century England Part 2:
Contraception and the Class Struggle 2. The Beginning of the Birth Control
Debate 3. Contraception and Working-Class Movements 4. Birth Control and
Medical Self-help 5. Birth Control and the Morality of Married Life Part 3:
Neo-Malthusianism and its Late Nineteenth-Century Critics 6. The Malthusian
League 7. Birth Control and the British Medical Profession, 1850-1914 8.
Birth Control and Eugenics 9. Socialists and Birth Control: the Case of the
Social Democratic Federation 10. Socialists and Birth Control: Freedom or
Efficiency 11. Feminism and Fertility Control Part 4: Theory and Practice
12. Birth Control and the Working Classes 13. Abortion in England,
1890-1914. Conclusion. Index.