Trent MacNamara

Birth Control and American Modernity (eBook, PDF)

A History of Popular Ideas

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

How did birth control become legitimate in the United States? One kitchen table at a time, contends Trent MacNamara, who charts how Americans reexamined old ideas about money, time, transcendence, nature, and risk when considering approaches to family planning. By the time Margaret Sanger and other activists began campaigning for legal contraception in the 1910s, Americans had been effectively controlling fertility for a century, combining old techniques with explosive new ideas. Birth Control and American Modernity charts those ideas, capturing a movement that relied less on traditional public advocacy than dispersed action of the kind that nullified Prohibition. Acting in bedrooms and gossip corners where formal power was weak and moral feeling strong, Americans of both sexes gradually normalized birth control in private, then in public, as part of a wider prioritization of present material worlds over imagined eternal continuums. The moral edifice they constructed, and similar citizen movements around the world, remains tenuously intact.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108564977
• Artikelnr.: 56548549

Autorenporträt

Trent MacNamara is an assistant professor of history at Texas A & M University.

Inhaltsangabe

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.