A History of the Birth Control Movement in America (Healing Society: Disease, Medicine, and History) [Kindle Edition]
Author: Peter C. Engelman | Language: English | ISBN: B00EQ7DUR8 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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A History of the Birth Control Movement in America tells the extraordinary story of a group of reformers dedicated to making contraception legal, accessible, and acceptable. The engrossing tale details how Margaret Sanger's campaign beginning in 1914 to challenge anti-obscenity laws criminalizing the distribution of contraceptive information grew into one of the most far-reaching social reform movements in American history.
The book opens with a discussion of the history of birth control methods and the criminalization of contraception and abortion in the 19th century. Its core, however, is an exciting narrative of the campaign in the 20th century, vividly recalling the arrests and indictments, banned publications, imprisonments, confiscations, clinic raids, mass meetings, and courtroom dramas that publicized the cause across the nation. Attention is paid to the movement's thorny alliances with medicine and eugenics and especially to its success in precipitating a profound shift in sexual attitudes that turned the use of contraception into an acceptable social and medical practice. Finally, the birth control movement is linked to court-won privacy protections and the present-day movement for reproductive rights.
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- Print Length: 231 pages
- Publisher: Praeger (April 19, 2011)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00EQ7DUR8
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"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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