Birth Control Laws, Shall We Keep Them, Change Them, Or Abolish Them
Author : Mary Ware Dennett
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,28 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Birth control
ISBN :
Author : Mary Ware Dennett
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,28 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Birth control
ISBN :
Author : Noël Merino
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 12,18 MB
Release : 2014-02-17
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 0737769947
Through a fascinating and compelling collection of essays, this book explores real or perceived teen rights related to birth control, including laws regulating contraception, abortion, the right to privacy, and parental involvement. The role of schools teaching abstinence versus sex education is also discussed.
Author : Donald T. Critchlow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 36,3 MB
Release : 2001-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0198021534
After World War II, U.S. policy experts--convinced that unchecked population growth threatened global disaster--successfully lobbied bipartisan policy-makers in Washington to initiate federally-funded family planning. In Intended Consequences, Donald T. Critchlow deftly chronicles how the government's involvement in contraception and abortion evolved into one of the most bitter, partisan controversies in American political history. The growth of the feminist movement in the late 1960s fundamentally altered the debate over the federal family planning movement, shifting its focus from population control directed by established interests in the philanthropic community to highly polarized pro-abortion and anti-abortion groups mobilized at the grass-roots level. And when the Supreme Court granted women the Constitutional right to legal abortion in 1973, what began as a bi-partisan, quiet revolution during the administrations of Kennedy and Johnson exploded into a contentious argument over sexuality, welfare, the role of women, and the breakdown of traditional family values. Intended Consequences encompasses over four decades of political history, examining everything from the aftermath of the Republican "moral revolution" during the Reagan and Bush years to the current culture wars concerning unwed motherhood, homosexuality, and the further protection of women's abortion rights. Critchlow's carefully balanced appraisal of federal birth control and abortion policy reveals that despite the controversy, the family planning movement has indeed accomplished much in the way of its intended goal--the reduction of population growth in many parts of the world. Written with authority, fresh insight, and impeccable research, Intended Consequences skillfully unfolds the history of how the federal government found its way into the private bedrooms of the American family.
Author : Peter C. Engelman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 13,59 MB
Release : 2011-04-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0313365105
This narrative history of one of the most far-reaching social movements in the 20th century shows how it defied the law and made the use of contraception an acceptable social practice—and a necessary component of modern healthcare. 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.
Author : Adolf Meyer
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 20,79 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Birth control
ISBN :
Author : David E. Newton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 26,41 MB
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1440872856
Birth Control: A Reference Handbook provides a breadth and depth of discussion about birth control throughout human history and in the modern day, with attention paid to the controversies related to it. Birth Control: A Reference Handbook covers the topic of birth control from the earliest pages of human history to the present day. The book is divided into two parts. The first two chapters provide a historical background to the topic and a review of current issues and problems. The remainder of the book consists of chapters that aid the reader in continuing her or his own research on the topic, such as an extended annotated bibliography, chronology, glossary, noteworthy individuals and organizations in the field, and important data and documents. This book differs from other works on its subject primarily because of the variety of resources provided, such as further reading, perspective essays on the topic, a historical timeline, and useful terms in the field. It is intended for readers of high school through the community college level, along with adult readers who may be interested in the topic.
Author : Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 45,62 MB
Release : 1929
Category : Birth control
ISBN :
Author : John W. Johnson
Publisher :
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 34,31 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN :
Recounts the landmark 1965 Supreme Court case that declared a new and previously unarticulated "right of privacy" and paved the way for the Roe v. Wade decision. Decades later, Griswold v. Connecticut remains extremely controversial as an example of an activist judiciary making new law rather than merely interpreting existing law.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher :
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 27,56 MB
Release : 1931
Category : Birth control
ISBN :
Considers legislation to amend Federal laws prohibiting the mailing of birth control and contraceptive devices.
Author : Peter C. Engelman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,93 MB
Release : 2011-04-19
Category : Medical
ISBN :
This narrative history of one of the most far-reaching social movements in the 20th century shows how it defied the law and made the use of contraception an acceptable social practice—and a necessary component of modern healthcare. 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.