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The Sterilization Movement and Global Fertility in the Twentieth Century.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (281 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199719990
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Sterilization Movement and Global Fertility in the Twentieth CenturyDDC classification:
  • 304.6/66
LOC classification:
  • HQ766.5.U5D69 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Prologue -- Chapter 1 Up from Eugenics -- Chapter 2 A New League -- Chapter 3 The Poverty Bomb -- Chapter 4 House on Fire -- Chapter 5 A Great Wave -- Chapter 6 Tarred and Feathered -- Chapter 7 Going Global -- Bibliography -- Abbreviations -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.
Summary: Many would be surprised to learn that the preferred method of birth control in the United States today is actually surgical sterilization. This book takes an historical look at the sterilization movement in post-World War II America, a revolution in modern contraceptive behavior. Focusing on leaders of the sterilization movement from the 1930's through the turn of the century, this book explores the historic linkages between environment, civil liberties, eugenics, population control, sex education, marriage counseling, and birth control movements in the 20th-century United States.
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Intro -- Contents -- Prologue -- Chapter 1 Up from Eugenics -- Chapter 2 A New League -- Chapter 3 The Poverty Bomb -- Chapter 4 House on Fire -- Chapter 5 A Great Wave -- Chapter 6 Tarred and Feathered -- Chapter 7 Going Global -- Bibliography -- Abbreviations -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.

Many would be surprised to learn that the preferred method of birth control in the United States today is actually surgical sterilization. This book takes an historical look at the sterilization movement in post-World War II America, a revolution in modern contraceptive behavior. Focusing on leaders of the sterilization movement from the 1930's through the turn of the century, this book explores the historic linkages between environment, civil liberties, eugenics, population control, sex education, marriage counseling, and birth control movements in the 20th-century United States.

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