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
Main Author: Craig, Layne Parish
Corporate Author: American Literatures Initiative
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Rutgers University Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women and literature.
Feminism and literature.
Eugenics in literature.
English literature.
Birth control > Social aspects.
Birth control in literature.
American literature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Regulation des naissances > Aspect social > Grande-Bretagne.
Regulation des naissances > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Eugenisme dans la litterature.
Regulation des naissances dans la litterature.
Femmes et litterature.
Litterature anglaise > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Litterature americaine > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Birth control > Social aspects > Great Britain.
Birth control > Social aspects > United States.
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
United States.
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 topics (including feminism, religion, and eugenics) changed the way that writers depicted women, marriage, and family life. Tracing this shift, Craig compares disparate responses to the birth control controversy, from early skepticism by mainstream feminists, reflected in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland.
Physical Description:1 online resource (216 pages).
ISBN:9780813562124

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