From private vice to public virtue
Subtitle: the birth control movement and American society since 1830
By: James Reed.
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 1978
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 456
Subjects: Birth control -- United States -- History; Contraception -- United States -- History
Notes: Bibliography: p. 439-447.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Birth control before Margaret Sanger. Contraceptive technology in the nineteenth century ; The rise of the companionate family ; The suppression of contraceptive information ; The anarchists ; Permissiveness with affection: a sexual standard for an affluent society -- The woman rebel: Margaret Sanger and the struggle for clinics. The burden of domesticity ; European models ; Competition for leadership ; Providing clinics ; Woman and the new race -- Robert L. Dickinson and the committee on maternal health. The medical man as sex researcher ; Clinical studies ; Publisher and clearing house -- The prospect of depopulation. Birth control in American social science: 1870-1940 ; Birth control stalled ; The parents' information bureau -- Birth control entrepreneur: the philanthropic pathfinding of Clarence J. Gamble. A recruit for birth control ; Policing the marketplace ; Experiments in population control: Logan County, West Virginia, and the North Carolina Public Health Department ; Conflict and isolation -- Propagandists turned to prophets: birth control in a crowded world. The population explosion ; Margaret Sanger from exile: the founding of the International Planned Parenthood Federation ; The failure of simple methods: the IUD justified -- The pill. The prospects for hormonal sterilization ; A life in experimental biology ; The lady bountiful ; The product champion -- The trouble with family planning.