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The sterilization movement and global fertility in the twentieth century / Ian Dowbiggin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dowbiggin, Ian Robert, 1952- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sterilization (Birth control)--United States--History--20th century.
- Sterilization (Birth control).
- Sterilization, Reproductive--history.
- Contraception Behavior--history.
- History, 20th Century.
- Socioeconomic Factors.
- Medical Subjects:
- Sterilization, Reproductive--history.
- Contraception Behavior--history.
- History, 20th Century.
- Socioeconomic Factors.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This work takes an historical look at the sterilization movement in post-World War II America. Focusing on leaders of the sterilization movement from the 1930's on, it explores the linkages between environment, civil liberties, eugenics, population control, sex education, marriage counselling, and birth control movements.
- Contents:
- Up from eugenics
- A new league
- The poverty bomb
- House on fire
- A great wave
- Tarred and feathered
- Going global.
- Notes:
- Formerly CIP.
- Previously issued in print: 2008.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-240) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-029333-0
- 0-19-770899-4
- 1-282-54416-0
- 9786612544163
- 0-19-971999-3
- OCLC:
- 649982402
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