BIRTH CONTROL SEX History Movement America Abortion Contraception Rights Laws HC

Description: A History of the Birth Control Movement in America Healing Society: Disease, Medicine, and Historyby Peter C. Engelman Praeger, 2011. Like new hardcover, no dustjacket as issued. Appears unread with tiight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text. Illustrated, 8vo, index, 231 pages. This narrative history of one of the most far-reaching social movements in the 20th century shows how it defied the law and made the use of contraception an acceptable social practice—and a necessary component of modern healthcare.A History of the Birth Control Movement in America tells the extraordinary story of a group of reformers dedicated to making contraception legal, accessible, and acceptable. The engrossing tale details how Margaret Sanger's campaign beginning in 1914 to challenge anti-obscenity laws criminalizing the distribution of contraceptive information grew into one of the most far-reaching social reform movements in American history.The book opens with a discussion of the history of birth control methods and the criminalization of contraception and abortion in the 19th century. Its core, however, is an exciting narrative of the campaign in the 20th century, vividly recalling the arrests and indictments, banned publications, imprisonments, confiscations, clinic raids, mass meetings, and courtroom dramas that publicized the cause across the nation. Attention is paid to the movement's thorny alliances with medicine and eugenics and especially to its success in precipitating a profound shift in sexual attitudes that turned the use of contraception into an acceptable social and medical practice. Finally, the birth control movement is linked to court-won privacy protections and the present-day movement for reproductive rights. Loc: E6StoreAdd to FavoritesFeedbackBIRTH CONTROL SEX History Movement America Abortion Contraception Rights Laws HC A History of the Birth Control Movement in America Healing Society: Disease, Medicine, and Historyby Peter C. Engelman Praeger, 2011. Like new hardcover, no dustjacket as issued. Appears unread with tiight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text. Illustrated, 8vo, index, 231 pages. This narrative history of one of the most far-reaching social movements in the 20th century shows how it defied the law and made the use of contraception an acceptable social practice—and a necessary component of modern healthcare.A History of the Birth Control Movement in America tells the extraordinary story of a group of reformers dedicated to making contraception legal, accessible, and acceptable. The engrossing tale details how Margaret Sanger's campaign beginning in 1914 to challenge anti-obscenity laws criminalizing the distribution of contraceptive information grew into one of the most far-reaching social reform movements in American history.The book opens with a discussion of the history of birth control methods and the criminalization of contraception and abortion in the 19th century. Its core, however, is an exciting narrative of the campaign in the 20th century, vividly recalling the arrests and indictments, banned publications, imprisonments, confiscations, clinic raids, mass meetings, and courtroom dramas that publicized the cause across the nation. Attention is paid to the movement's thorny alliances with medicine and eugenics and especially to its success in precipitating a profound shift in sexual attitudes that turned the use of contraception into an acceptable social and medical practice. Finally, the birth control movement is linked to court-won privacy protections and the present-day movement for reproductive rights. Loc: E6

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Book Title: Peter C. Engelman

Genre: Antiquarian & Collectible, Family, Parenting & Relations, Health, Treatments & Medicine, Historical, History, Law, Modern & Contemporary, Politics & Society, Sexuality, Sociology

Book Series: Healing Society: Disease, Medicine, and History

Original Language: English

Features: Illustrated

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

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