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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781501738791
035 _a(DE-B1597)534658
035 _a(OCoLC)1178769376
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082 0 4 _a363.9/6/0973
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aMcCann, Carole R.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aBirth-Control Politics in the United States, 1916–1945 /
_cCarole R. McCann.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2019]
264 4 _c©1999
300 _a1 online resource (256 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tList of Abbreviations --
_t1. Introduction: The Politics of Pessaries --
_t2. Birth Control and Feminism --
_t3. Birth Control and the Medical Profession --
_t4. Birth Control and Racial Betterment --
_t5. Better Health for Thirteen Million: --
_t6. Laywomen and Organization Men --
_tChronology of Events in the U.S. Birth Control Movement --
_tWorks Cited --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aBetween 1916 and 1945 the American birth control movement secured the legalization of contraception and gave women access to birth control in more than eight hundred clinics across the country. In a provocative history of the behind-the-scenes struggle leading to those achievements, Carole R. McCann reassesses the movement's successes alongside its compromises. As she traces shifts in alliances, strategies, and rhetorical appeals, McCann shows how the politics of race and sex influenced the movement to rely on eugenicist arguments that eventually eclipsed the feminist claim to women's right to control their reproduction.McCann examines the birth control movement's coalitions with white laywomen, eugenicists, and physicians throughout the period and with AfricanAmerican professionals who became involved in birth control advocacy in the early 1930s. Commitments to asserting the traditional principle of female chastity, she shows, led major feminist organizations—the League of Women Voters, the National Woman's Party, and the Children's Bureau—to refuse to support Margaret Sanger's demand for women's right to contraception. McCann argues that the birth control movement ceded far too much to the inherently racist eugenicist arguments in order to avoid the controversy that the asserion of women's right to sexual enjoyment and reproductive freedom provoked.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650 0 _aBirth control
_xPolitical aspects
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aBirth control
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 4 _aFamily & Relationships.
650 4 _aPolitical Science & Political History.
650 4 _aU.S. History.
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Abortion & Birth Control.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7591/9781501738791
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501738791
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