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Contents Preface vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Birth Control, the Moral Property of Women 1 part 1: From Folk Medicine to Prohibition to Resistance 1. The Prehistory of Birth Control 7 2. The Criminals 22 3. Prudent Sex 38 part 2: Birth Control and Women’s Rights 4. Voluntary Motherhood 55 5. Social Purity and Eugenics 72 6. Race Suicide 86 7. Continence or Indulgence 105 8. Birth Control and Social Revolution 125 part 3: From Women’s Rights to Family Planning 9. Professionalization 171 10. Depression 211 11. Planned Parenthood 242 12. Birth Control Becomes Public Policy 279 00.FM.i-xvi/Gord 9/25/02, 10:42 AM 5 part 4: Birth Control in the Era of Second-Wave Feminsm 13. Abortion, the Mother Controversy 295 14. Is Nothing Simple about Reproduction Control? 321 Conclusion: Birth Control and Feminism 357 Appendix: Selected Recent Scholarship on the History of Reproduction Control 365 Notes 367 Index 431 00.FM.i-xvi/Gord 9/25/02, 10:42 AM 6 ...