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Textual Contraception : Birth Control and Modern American Fiction /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Capo, Beth Widmaier, 1973-
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2007.
Series:	Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:	Eugenik Mutterschaft Geburtenregelung Literatur Race in literature. Motherhood in literature. Literature and science. Eugenics in literature. Birth control in literature. American fiction. Abortion in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM > General. Litterature et sciences > États-Unis. Race dans la litterature. Eugenisme dans la litterature. Maternite dans la litterature. Regulation des naissances dans la litterature. Avortement dans la litterature. Roman americain > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique. Medicine in Literature > history Eugenics > history Abortion, Induced > history Contraception > history Literature and science > United States. American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. USA. United States. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Electronic books.
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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.