The birth control clinic in a marketplace world / Rose Holz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holz, Rosemarie Petra, 1968-

Series:

Rochester studies in medical history

Rochester studies in medical history, 1526-2715

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Birth control clinics--United States.

Birth control clinics.

Birth control--United States.

Birth control.

Family planning services.

United States.

Family planning services--United States.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

Physical Description:

xi, 226 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2012.

Summary:

Holz (women's and gender studies, U. of Nebraska-Lincoln) documents the origins and development of the charity birth control movement in the US from the 1910s through the 1970s, when there was a transformation in the goods and services of birth control clinics. She analyzes the relationship between Planned Parenthood and the commercial marketplace (with a focus on in Illinois) and the ideological overlap and blurred boundaries between business and charity, as their adversarial relationship developed into one that was more similar than not. She details how the charity clinic movement adopted strategies to assert its virtues and the evils of business, the merits of doctor-prescribed diaphragms, and the legitimacy of the clinic, then describes the battles between the national Planned Parenthood office and local affiliates over standardization and control, as well as women's dissatisfaction with the diaphragm and return to the marketplace for birth control needs, and the new conceptualization of family. She describes the introduction of the pill in the period from the 1950s to the 1970s, the influx of black people in the Chicago family planning movement, the rise of widespread clinical research inside Planned Parenthood clinics, and how the clinics changed their views of contraceptives for the unwed, over-the-counter methods, the termination of pregnancy, ties with pharmaceutical companies, and the use of commercial techniques to promote its family planning message. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

The birth of the clinic

Rising above

Old habits are hard to break

New habits are formed.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781580463997

1580463991

OCLC:

748334021