| Description |
viii, 275 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Family, sexuality, and social relations in past times |
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Family, sexuality, and social relations in past times.
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| Contents |
1. The patterning of fertility in ancient Greece -- 2. Fertility control in Rome -- 3. Abortion and contraception in the Christian West -- 4. Procreation in the Middle Ages -- 5. Fertility control in early modern Europe -- 6. Neo-Malthusianism and the fertility transition -- 7. The truimph of family planning |
| Summary |
"This book the first history of contraception for almost fifty years, provides a scholarly and highly readable account of procreation and attempts to prevent it from ancient Greece to the late twentieth century. The story, as the author shows, is not one of unalleviated progress, and anything but a simple passage from ignorance to enlightenment. Marshalling evidence from demography, medicine, literature, religious, family and women's history, he shows both that the idea of limiting progeny is ever-present in human history and that many contraceptive practices have endured for at least two and a half millennia. In cosidering questions of both motivation and method, Angus McLaren reveals the intimate interactions between reproductive decision-making on the one hand and social, economic, political and gender relationaships on the other."--amazon.ca |
| Analysis |
Birth control History |
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Contraception History |
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Family planning History |
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Family History |
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Geschichte |
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Birth control - History |
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Contraception - History |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Birth control -- History.
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Contraception -- History.
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Contraception.
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Family.
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History.
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Sex Education.
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Contraception -- history.
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Family Planning Services -- history.
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| LC no. |
90034917 |
| ISBN |
0631167110 |
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0631187294 |
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