When Sex Changed : Birth Control Politics and Literature between the World Wars.

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In When Sex Changed, Layne Parish Craig analyzes the ways literary texts responded to the political, economic, sexual, and social values put forward by the birth control movements of the 1910's to the 1930's in the United States and Great Britain. Discussion of contraception and related to...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Craig, Layne Parish
Corporate Author: American Literatures Initiative
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Rutgers University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
1900-1999
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Women and literature.
Birth control in literature.
Feminism and literature.
Eugenics in literature.
Birth control > Social aspects > United States.
Birth control > Social aspects > Great Britain.
Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Femmes et littérature.
Régulation des naissances dans la littérature.
Eugénisme dans la littérature.
Régulation des naissances > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Régulation des naissances > Aspect social > Grande-Bretagne.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
American literature
Birth control in literature
Birth control > Social aspects
English literature
Eugenics in literature
Feminism and literature
Women and literature
Great Britain
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Setting motherhood free
  • The thing you are!: the woman rebel in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland saga
  • Six sons at Eton: birth control and the medical model in Joyce and Woolf
  • That means children to me: the birth control review in Harlem
  • Unbridled lust and calamitous error: religion, eugenics, and contraception in 1930s family sagas
  • She takes good care that the matter will end there: the artist's douche bag in three guineas and if I forget thee, Jerusalem
  • Conclusion: Birth control's narrative afterlives.

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