In this Book
- The Birth Control Movement and American Society: From Private Vice to Public Virtue
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: Princeton University Press
- Series: Princeton Legacy Library
This is the first comprehensive history of the struggle to win public acceptance of contraceptive practice. James Reed traces this remarkable story from its beginnings, carefully documenting the roles of the diverse interests that supported birth control, including feminists, eugenicists, and physicians, and providing a unique account of the struggles of such pioneers as Margaret Sanger, Robert Dickinson, and Clarence Gamble to win the support of organized medicine, to change laws, to open birth control clinics, and to improve birth control methods.
Originally published in 1984.
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Table of Contents
- Preface to the Princeton Edition
- pp. xv-xxiii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xxiv-xxv
- Part I
- 4. The Anarchists
- pp. 46-53
- PART 11
- 6. The Burden of Domesticity
- pp. 67-88
- 7. European Models
- pp. 89-96
- 8. Competition for Leadership
- pp. 97-105
- 9. Providing Clinics
- pp. 106-128
- 10. Woman and the New Race
- pp. 129-140
- PART III
- 11. The Medical Man as Sex Researcher
- pp. 143-166
- 12. Clinical Studies
- pp. 167-180
- 13. Publisher and Clearing House
- pp. 181-194
- PART IV
- 15. Birth Control Stalled
- pp. 211-217
- 16. The Parents' Information Bureau
- pp. 218-222
- PART V
- 17. A Recruit for Birth Control
- pp. 225-238
- 18. Policing the Marketplace
- pp. 239-246
- 20. Conflict and Isolation
- pp. 257-278
- PART VI
- 21. The Population Explosion
- pp. 281-288
- PART VII
- 24. The Prospects for Hormonal Sterilization
- pp. 311-316
- 25. A Life in Experimental Biology
- pp. 317-333
- 26. The Lady Bountiful
- pp. 334-345
- 27. The Product Champion
- pp. 346-366
- Part VIII: The Trouble With Family Planning
- pp. 367-382
- Abbreviations Used in the Notes
- pp. 383-384
- Bibliographical Essay
- pp. 439-447