Textual contraception
Subtitle: birth control and modern American fiction
By: Beth Widmaier Capo.
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780814210598; 9780814291399
Subjects: American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Abortion in literature; Birth control in literature; Motherhood in literature; Eugenics in literature; Race in literature; Literature and science -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Lewd and lascivious" literature; title: "As red and flaming as possible": radical rhetoric of the 1910s; title: "For married women only": birth control and modern marriage; title: "Conscious makers of people": achieving a free motherhood; title: Reading the body, controlling the race: birth control and the eugenic impetus of the 1920s and 1930s; title: The economics of desire and despair: birth control and the depression era; title: Conclusion: textual contraception.