The Gospel of Family Planning : An Intimate Global History / Nicole C. Bourbonnais.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bourbonnais, Nicole C., Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.) : 18 halftones, 3 tables

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2025]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

An engaging, insightful history of the family planning movement and its connection to broader social and political developments across the globe. Historical accounts of the twentieth-century global family planning movement have largely focused on the most prominent activists and those at the helm of international organizations, philanthropic foundations, and government programs. In The Gospel of Family Planning, however, historian Nicole C. Bourbonnais shifts our attention to frontline workers—doctors, social workers, nurses, fieldworkers, consultants, church groups, and volunteers—who, she compellingly shows, played a central (if complicated) role. Through a mix of collective biography and microhistory, Bourbonnais visits clinics, doorsteps, and bedrooms, revealing the everyday, ground-level workings of grassroots family planning campaigns, state population control programs, and the movements for reproductive rights and justice that arose to contest them. Throughout the book, Bourbonnais invites readers to consider how the intertwined histories of missionary work, humanitarianism, feminism, decolonization, and international development shaped intimate interventions into people’s reproductive lives around the world.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

CHAPTER ONE. Prophets

CHAPTER TWO. Practice

CHAPTER THREE. Crisis of Faith

CHAPTER FOUR. Redemption?

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780226840796

0226840794

OCLC:

1511483567