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Sex and herbs and birth control : women and fertility regulation through the ages / Ann Hibner Koblitz.
Author
Koblitz, Ann Hibner
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Seattle, WA : Kovalevskaia Fund, [2014]
Description
viii, 345 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Stokes Library - Wallace Hall (SPR)
RM666.H33 K62 2014
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Birth control
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Abortion
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Herbs
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Therapeutic use
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Summary note
"Sex and Herbs and Birth Control is about the pragmatism and resourcefulness of women. In their continuing efforts to maintain control of their sexuality and fertility, through time and across cultures women have managed to navigate around the constraints imposed upon them. They have utilized herbs that reduce fertility; fashioned makeshift diaphragms out of lemon, beeswax, Sex and Herbs and Birth Control and sea sponge; and circumvented religious and societal proscriptions in order to maintain their access to abortion. They have even manipulated definitions of pregnancy itself. This does not mean, however, that women's control over childbearing decisions has remained constant, still less that it is always increasing. The array of forces acting to limit women's reproductive options is formidable. Selective rather than encyclopedic, Sex and Herbs and Birth Control includes examples not only from the U.S. and western Europe, but also from Algeria, China, Cuba, El Salvador, India, Mexico, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Vietnam, and elsewhere. The book contains original treatments of Margaret Sanger, the origins of forensic pathology and its ties to abortion, the complex meanings of pregnancy and its termination, and the shortcomings of demographers' discussions of fertility control."--Publisher
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-311) and index.
Contents
A fertile realm for human ingenuity
A little bit pregnant
Praying to St. Bridget
The dead woman on the table
The demographic transition and other tales.
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ISBN
9780989665506
098966550X
LCCN
2013916540
OCLC
876601145
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