Add to ORKGThis dissertation examines the relationship between law, medicine, and the arguments for legal birth control in the United States in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. The project demonstrates that birth control activism, often considered a fringe aspect of the larger women’s movement, was deeply ingrained in the larger agenda of women’s liberation before the turn of the twentieth century. Feminist reformers’ responses to medical and legal conceptions of women’s disabilities also shaped arguments for female sexual freedom and reproductive rights. As physicians and lawyers alike argued over women’s capacity for reason, women’s rights activists responded with the latest scientific thinking on gynecology, anatomy, and eugenics to prove that ...
274 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002.My dissertation, a social and...
274 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002.My dissertation, a social and...
While Margaret Sanger made great strides in the crusade for legalization and open access to birth co...
This dissertation examines the relationship between law, medicine, and the arguments for legal birth...
This thesis investigates the subject of birth control in the first half of the 20th century, specifi...
This thesis investigates the subject of birth control in the first half of the 20th century, specifi...
abstract: In the late nineteenth century, the Comstock Act of 1873 made the distribution of contrace...
Before the 1920s, a birth control movement arose in the United States out of socialist, feminist, an...
By the beginning of the twentieth century, the development of better contraceptives and changing cul...
Control over reproduction is obviously not the only component in the fight for women’s equality. Ho...
In both Britain and the United States, the interwar years witnessed the formation of a new organized...
This dissertation examines the roots of birth control's legitimacy in the United States. Americans w...
This dissertation returns to an era when the American Medical Association did not consider contracep...
This dissertation returns to an era when the American Medical Association did not consider contracep...
Thesis (M.A.)--Humboldt State University, Social Science, Emphasis - Teaching American History, 2006...
274 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002.My dissertation, a social and...
274 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002.My dissertation, a social and...
While Margaret Sanger made great strides in the crusade for legalization and open access to birth co...
This dissertation examines the relationship between law, medicine, and the arguments for legal birth...
This thesis investigates the subject of birth control in the first half of the 20th century, specifi...
This thesis investigates the subject of birth control in the first half of the 20th century, specifi...
abstract: In the late nineteenth century, the Comstock Act of 1873 made the distribution of contrace...
Before the 1920s, a birth control movement arose in the United States out of socialist, feminist, an...
By the beginning of the twentieth century, the development of better contraceptives and changing cul...
Control over reproduction is obviously not the only component in the fight for women’s equality. Ho...
In both Britain and the United States, the interwar years witnessed the formation of a new organized...
This dissertation examines the roots of birth control's legitimacy in the United States. Americans w...
This dissertation returns to an era when the American Medical Association did not consider contracep...
This dissertation returns to an era when the American Medical Association did not consider contracep...
Thesis (M.A.)--Humboldt State University, Social Science, Emphasis - Teaching American History, 2006...
274 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002.My dissertation, a social and...
274 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002.My dissertation, a social and...
While Margaret Sanger made great strides in the crusade for legalization and open access to birth co...