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When sex changed : birth control politics and literature between the world wars

Author
Craig, Layne Parish.
Title
When sex changed : birth control politics and literature between the world wars / Layne Parish Craig.
Format
Book
Published
New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2013]
Description
x, 206 pages ; 23 cm
Series
American Literatures Initiative
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-200) and index.
Contents
  • Introduction: Setting motherhood free
  • The thing you are!: the woman rebel in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland saga
  • Six sons at Eton: birth control and the medical model in Joyce and Woolf
  • That means children to me: the birth control review in Harlem
  • Unbridled lust and calamitous error: religion, eugenics, and contraception in 1930s family sagas
  • She takes good care that the matter will end there: the artist's douche bag in three guineas and if I forget thee, Jerusalem
  • Conclusion: Birth control's narrative afterlives.
Kinsey subjects
Contraception history--20th century. Eugenics.
ISBN
9780813562117 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0813562112 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780813562100 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0813562104 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780813562124 (e-book) 0813562120 (e-book)

Holdings

Library
Blmgtn - Kinsey Institute Library (by appointment only)
Call Number
613.5 C72 w5 2013
Location
Auxiliary Library Facility - Kinsey Institute