Trent MacNamara

Birth Control and American Modernity

A History of Popular Ideas

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Produktbeschreibung

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 as well as women built a new reproductive ethic around hotly contested ideas about time, money, divinity, family, and health.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9781108460538
• ISBN-10: 1108460534
• Artikelnr.: 58441403

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.