Capo, Beth Widmaier, 1973-

Textual Contraception Birth Control and Modern American Fiction / Beth Widmaier Capo. - 1 online resource (ix, 220 p.) : ill. ; - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

"50th, 1957-2007, Ohio State", on cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-212) and index.

"Lewd and lascivious" literature -- "As red and flaming as possible": radical rhetoric of the 1910s -- "For married women only": birth control and modern marriage -- "Conscious makers of people": achieving a free motherhood -- Reading the body, controlling the race: birth control and the eugenic impetus of the 1920s and 1930s -- The economics of desire and despair: birth control and the depression era -- Conclusion: textual contraception.

Open Access

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Literature and science--United States.
Race in literature.
Eugenics in literature.
Motherhood in literature.
Birth control in literature.
Abortion in literature.
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century


Electronic books.

PS374.A24 / C37 2007

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