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Author Brodie, Janet Farrell.

Title Contraception and abortion in nineteenth-century America / Janet Farrell Brodie.

Publication Info. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1994.

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 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  363.96 B78 c.2  Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  363.96 BRODIE    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  363.46 BR    Check Shelf
Description xviii, 373 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Introduction -- Story of love and family limitation: "X" for sexual intercourse -- Strategies in Colonial America -- "New" reproductive control -- Private debate goes public -- Antebellum public audience: who were they and how did they find out? -- Boom in self-help literature after 1850 -- "Most fashionable" contraceptive devices -- Criminalizing reproductive control: End-of-century campaigns to disempower women -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Selected bibliography of literature of reproductive control advice, 1830-1880 -- Index.
Summary Drawing from a wide range of private and public sources, examines how American families gradually found access to taboo information and products for controlling the size of their families from the 1830s to the 1890s when a puritan backlash made most of it illegal. Emphasizes the importance of two shadowy networks, medical practitioners known as Thomsonians and water-curists, and iconoclastic freethinkers.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [357]-365) and index.
Subject Birth control -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Contraception -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Sex customs -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Family Planning Services -- history -- United States.
Abortion, Induced -- history -- United States.
Contraception -- history -- United States.
Sexual Behavior -- history -- United States.
Added Title Contraception and abortion in 19th-century America.
ISBN 0801428491 alkaline paper
Standard No. 9780801428494
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