Title: Pregnancy, motherhood, and choice in twentieth-century Arizona /
Authors: Melcher, Mary S., 1955-
Publisher: University of Arizona Press,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Pregnant Women; Maternal Health Services history; History, 20th Century; Contraception; Family Planning Services history; Birth control Arizona History; Family planning Arizona History; Pregnant women Services for Arizona History; Prenatal care Arizona History; Mothers Services for Arizona History; Arizona; Arizona
Contents: "You're my miracle": babies, birth rates, and health care, 1910-1940 -- Saving the babies: lowering infant mortality in the Southwest -- Margaret Sanger and Arizona's birth control movement -- "Tis a sobering experience": providing contraceptives for the rural and urban poor -- Battling poverty and isolation to improve mothers' and infants' health -- "Rhythm babies," birth control, and Planned Parenthood: years of growth and change -- Arizona and abortion reform: conflict without resolution -- Providing reproductive health care in a new, more politicized era -- Pregnancy and choice: reproductive health in twentieth-century Arizona.