Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Birth Control, the Moral Property
PART 1: From Folk Medicine to Prohibition
1. The Prehistory of Birth Control
2. The Criminals
3. Prudent Sex
PART 2: Birth Control and Women’s Rights
4. Voluntary Motherhood
5. Social Purity and Eugenics
6. Race Suicide
7. Continence or Indulgence
8. Birth Control and Social Revolution
PART 3: From Women’s Rights to Family Planning
9. Professionalization
10. Depression
11. Planned Parenthood
12. Birth Control Becomes Public Policy
PART 4: Birth Control in the Era of Second-Wave Feminism
13. Abortion, the Mother Controversy
14. Is Nothing Simple about Reproduction Control?
Conclusion: Birth Control and Feminism
Appendix
Notes
Index
About the Author
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