A History of the Birth Control Movement in America (Healing Society: Disease, Medicine, and History) Hardcover – April 19, 2011
Author: Peter C. Engelman | Language: English | ISBN: 0313365091 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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Review
• Provides readers with the only narrative history of the American birth control movement, including a detailed account of the early, activist years, the opening of the first birth control clinic, and the formation of the American Birth Control League, the precursor to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
• Shows how this women-led movement challenged the law at every turn to inform women about safe and effective contraception and to open contraceptive clinics
• Relies on primary documentation, including press reports on early events, and draws on the most up-to-date research available on the birth control movement
• Offers a reasoned, historically based discussion of birth control and eugenics, covering, among other issues, recent accusations that the birth control movement was a racist enterprise
• 15 photographs and images of the major players in the movement and of key publications and contraceptive devices
• A selected bibliography and extensive end notes, providing an up-to-date source for primary and secondary material on the birth control movement
"Engelman's new work provides a brief and well-written introduction to this fascinating and overlooked American social reform movement and its complicated but passionate hero, Margaret Sanger."
-The Journal of Clinical Investigation
"Of particular interest are discussions of neo-Malthusians, medical doctors, Progressive-era reformers, anti-obscenity crusaders, free speech advocates, socialists, anarchists, and eugenicists. At the center of the story is Margaret Sanger, whose own story is interwoven with these various groups. Engelman offers an interesting, nuanced portrayal of this complex figure and her ongoing struggle for safe, affordable, and accessible contraception."
-Choice
"Engelman has succeeded in providing an accessible and detailed study of an important movement in American women's history. This book would work well in the classroom and would serve as a wonderful reference for students writing research papers on the birth control movement as well as faculty lecturing about the topic. It would also serve as an important text for non-historians eager to learn more about this history."
-Social History of Medicine
"[Engelman] reveals the backbreaking work of activists determined to legalize birth control in the Progressive Era. . . . An enjoyable read that builds on an impressive body of scholarship in order to educate the general audience about the history of birth control activism in the United States."
-The Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Review
"This book is a thoroughly comprehensive and clearly written history of a pioneering U.S. social movement. Peter Engelman's careful scholarship gives us a superbly rich and nuanced treatment which will be valuable and accessible to scholars and students alike."
(David J. Garrow, Pulitzer Prize-winning Author of Liberty and Sexuality
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- Series: Healing Society: Disease, Medicine, and History
- Hardcover: 231 pages
- Publisher: Praeger (April 19, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0313365091
- ISBN-13: 978-0313365096
- Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,134,218 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
"No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body."1 While this quote might sound like a manifesto of 1970s "second wave" feminists, it was penned by Margaret Higgins Sanger (1879-1966) in 1919. Sanger founded America's birth control movement and she dedicated her life to providing women with access to safe and legal contraceptives. In A History of the Birth Control Movement in America, Peter C. Engelman asserts that Sanger initiated "one of the most far reaching social reform movements in American history" that transformed birth control from the societal margins to the cultural mainstream (p. xvii). Surprisingly, Sanger's activism is not widely recognized. One of Engelman's goals is to provide a succinct, accessible history of the early birth control movement. As Engelman also points out, those who are aware of Sanger's legacy often place her at the center of disputes regarding the legitimacy of the later twentieth-century reproductive rights movement. While some laud her as a founder of modern feminism, others deride her eugenicist views and her advocacy of physician-controlled contraceptives. Engelman's position as editor of the Margaret Sanger Papers has provided him with the sources and expertise to effectively analyze the complexities Sanger's life and contributions, along with those of other early birth control advocates, in their multifaceted historical contexts.
Engelman first provides the eighteenth and nineteenth century prologue to the organized birth control movement. He highlights the writings of popular nineteenth-century sexual health advocates who brought contraceptive information to interested American readers.
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