The "science" of eugenics proposed that human perfection could be developed through selective breeding. In the late ...

This work tells the story of a group of reformers dedicated to making contraception legal, accessible, and acceptable. It details how Margaret Sanger's campaign beginning in 1914 to challenge anti ...

Lord Dawson of Penn, personal physician to the British Royal Household and to Edward of Wales,* last week testified that birth control was an excellent thing. Said he: “To ask this generation to go ...

Substantially rev. and updated ed. of: Woman's body, woman's right. 2nd ed. 1990. Introduction : birth control, the moral property of women -- From folk medicine to prohibition to resistance. The ...