Fit to Be Tied : Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in America, 1950-1980 /

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"The 1960s revolutionized American contraceptive practice. Diaphragms, jellies, and condoms with high failure rates gave way to newer choices of the Pill, IUD, and sterilization. Fit to Be Tied provides a history of sterilization and what would prove to become, at once, socially divisive and a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kluchin, Rebecca M. (Rebecca Marie) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2011]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sterilization (Birth control)
Reproductive rights.
Birth control > Government policy.
Droits genesiques > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Regulation des naissances > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Sterilisation (Regulation des naissances) > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Reproductive rights > United States > History > 20th century.
Birth control > Government policy > United States > History > 20th century.
Sterilization (Birth control) > United States > History > 20th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1: From eugenics to neo-eugenics
  • 2: Fit women and reproductive choice
  • 3: Sterilizing "unfit" women
  • 4: Fit women fight back
  • 5: Unfit women fight too
  • 6: Irreconcilable conflicts
  • 7: Endurance of neo-eugenics
  • Notes
  • Index.

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