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

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

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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 popula...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Kluchin, Rebecca M.,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2009]
©2011
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 1
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. From Eugenics to Neo-eugenics
  • Chapter 2. "Fit" Women and Reproductive Choice
  • Chapter 3. Sterilizing "Unfit" Women
  • Chapter 4. "Fit" Women Fight Back
  • Chapter 5. "Unfit" Women Fight Too
  • Chapter 6. Irreconcilable Conflicts
  • Chapter 7. The Endurance of Neo-eugenics
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author

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