Book The Bedroom and the State : The Changing Practices and Politics of Contraception and Abortion in Canada, 1880-1996 in MOBI, FB2, TXT
9780195413182 English 0195413180 The Bedroom and the State provides a comprehensive and balanced account of how Canadian men and women sought to limit births and how public figures attempted to turn such private concerns to political purposes. The second edition includes up-to-date appraisals of the decriminalization of abortion, the Right to Life movements, and the new reproductive technologies., The decline of the birth rate is arguably the most important social changeof the twentieth century in Canada. The Bedroom and the State, first publishedin 1986, examines the social, cultural, and technological reasons for thisdecline and answers such questions as:* What forms of contraception were used prior to the Pill?* How widespread and dangerous has abortion been?* Why were so many feminists, socialists, ministers, and doctors initiallyopposed to birth control?* Who were its first proponents in Canada?* Why has Quebec's birth rate fallen so precipitiously?* Why was contraception illegal until 1969?The Bedroom and the State is recognized as a landmark history of how Canadianmen and women sought to limit births and how public figures sought to turn suchconcern to political purposes. In this second edition the authors have updatedtheir conclusion and added a new chapter to cover denouement of thepro-choice/pro-life debate in Canada, to detail recent court challenges toCanadian law, and to describe recent developments in reproductive technologiesand their significance for present and future generations.This excellent work reveals that the control of fertility has been a crucialfactor in the history of the shifting power relationships of the sexes and theclasses.
9780195413182 English 0195413180 The Bedroom and the State provides a comprehensive and balanced account of how Canadian men and women sought to limit births and how public figures attempted to turn such private concerns to political purposes. The second edition includes up-to-date appraisals of the decriminalization of abortion, the Right to Life movements, and the new reproductive technologies., The decline of the birth rate is arguably the most important social changeof the twentieth century in Canada. The Bedroom and the State, first publishedin 1986, examines the social, cultural, and technological reasons for thisdecline and answers such questions as:* What forms of contraception were used prior to the Pill?* How widespread and dangerous has abortion been?* Why were so many feminists, socialists, ministers, and doctors initiallyopposed to birth control?* Who were its first proponents in Canada?* Why has Quebec's birth rate fallen so precipitiously?* Why was contraception illegal until 1969?The Bedroom and the State is recognized as a landmark history of how Canadianmen and women sought to limit births and how public figures sought to turn suchconcern to political purposes. In this second edition the authors have updatedtheir conclusion and added a new chapter to cover denouement of thepro-choice/pro-life debate in Canada, to detail recent court challenges toCanadian law, and to describe recent developments in reproductive technologiesand their significance for present and future generations.This excellent work reveals that the control of fertility has been a crucialfactor in the history of the shifting power relationships of the sexes and theclasses.