Birth Control and American Modernity: A History of Popular Ideas
- ISBN-10
- 1316519589
- ISBN-13
- 9781316519585
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 308
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-10-11
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Author
- Trent MacNamara
Description
MacNamara reveals how ordinary women and men legitimized birth control through private moral action, as opposed to public advocacy, in the early twentieth century.
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