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The Birth Control Movement and American Society: From Private Vice to Public Virtue

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The Birth Control Movement and American Society: From Private Vice to Public Virtue - Reed, James
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This is the first comprehensive history of the struggle to win public acceptance of contraceptive practice. James Reed traces this remarkable story from its beginnings, carefully documenting the roles of the diverse interests that supported birth control, including feminists, eugenicists, and physicians, and providing a unique account of the struggles of such pioneers as Margaret Sanger, Robert Dickinson, and Clarence Gamble to win the support of organized medicine, to change laws, to open birth control clinics, and to ...

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The Birth Control Movement and American Society: From Private Vice to Public Virtue 2016, Princeton University Press, New Jersey

ISBN-13: 9780691640815

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The Birth Control Movement and American Society: From Private Vice to Public Virtue 2014, Princeton University Press, New Jersey

ISBN-13: 9780691612911

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The Birth Control Movement and American Society: From Private Vice to Public Virtue 1984, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691028309

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