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Author Engelman, Peter C

Title A History of the Birth Control Movement in America
Published Santa Barbara : ABC-CLIO, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (257 pages)
Contents Cover; Contents; Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter One: Before "Birth Control"; Chapter Two: Birth Control and Free Speech; Chapter Three: Birth Control Clinics; Chapter Four: Birth Control and Public Acceptance; Conclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
Summary Following the example of Prohibition-era bootleggers, Margaret Sanger's husband, the president of the Three-In-One Oil Company, smuggled diaphragms into the United States in cartons of his lubricant. His actions are indicative of how difficult it was for women to secure effective contraceptionÑand how determined Sanger and other activists were to afford them the ability to do so
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Subject Birth control -- United States -- History
Birth control -- Political aspects -- United States
Birth control clinics -- United States -- History
Birth control
Birth control clinics
Birth control -- Political aspects
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780313365102
0313365105