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MacNamara Birth Control and American Modernity
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-108-56497-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Format: PDF
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A History of Popular Ideas
E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten
ISBN: 978-1-108-56497-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
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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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
Weitere Infos & Material
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.
