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.
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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