Textual Contraception Birth Control and Modern American Fiction - Capo, Beth Widmaier, 1973-; Project Muse. (Ohio State University Press, 2007)
"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.
"50th, 1957-2007, Ohio State", on cover.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-212) and index.
Description based on print version record.
Keywords: Literature and science -- United States; Race in literature; Eugenics in literature; Motherhood in literature; Birth control in literature; Abortion in literature; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Electronic books