Textual Contraception : Birth Control and Modern American Fiction /
"Between the 1910s and 1940s, American women fought for and won the right to legal birth control. This battle was fought in the courts, in the media, and in the pages of American literature. Textual Contraception: Birth Control and Modern American Fiction examines the relationship between aesth...
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Columbus :
Ohio State University Press,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- "Lewd and lascivious" literature
- "As red and flaming as possible": radical rhetoric of the 1910s
- "For married women only": birth control and modern marriage
- "Conscious makers of people": achieving a free motherhood
- Reading the body, controlling the race: birth control and the eugenic impetus of the 1920s and 1930s
- The economics of desire and despair: birth control and the depression era
- Conclusion: textual contraception.