1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453719703321

Autore

Craig Layne Parish

Titolo

When sex changed : birth control politics and literature between the world wars / / Layne Parish Craig

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, New Jersey : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-8135-6212-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 p.)

Collana

The American Literatures Initiative

Disciplina

810.9/9287

Soggetti

American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

English literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Women and literature

Birth control in literature

Feminism and literature

Eugenics in literature

Birth control - Social aspects - United States

Birth control - Social aspects - Great Britain

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Setting motherhood free -- The thing you are!: the woman rebel in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland saga -- Six sons at Eton: birth control and the medical model in Joyce and Woolf -- That means children to me: the birth control review in Harlem -- Unbridled lust and calamitous error: religion, eugenics, and contraception in 1930s family sagas -- She takes good care that the matter will end there: the artist's douche bag in three guineas and if I forget thee, Jerusalem -- Conclusion: Birth control's narrative afterlives.

Sommario/riassunto

In When Sex Changed, Layne Parish Craig analyzes the ways literary texts responded to the political, economic, sexual, and social values put forward by the birth control movements of the 1910's to the 1930's in the United States and Great Britain. Discussion of contraception and related topics (including feminism, religion, and eugenics) changed the



way that writers depicted women, marriage, and family life. Tracing this shift, Craig compares disparate responses to the birth control controversy, from early skepticism by mainstream feminists, reflected in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland, to concern about the movement's race and class implications suggested in Nella Larsen's Quicksand, to enthusiastic speculation about contraception's political implications, as in Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas. While these texts emphasized birth control's potential to transform marriage and family life and emancipate women from the "slavery" of constant childbearing, birth control advocates also used less-than-liberatory language that excluded the poor, the mentally ill, non-whites, and others. Ultimately, Craig argues, the debates that began in these early political and literary texts-texts that document both the birth control movement's idealism and its exclusionary rhetoric-helped shape the complex legacy of family planning and women's rights with which the United States and the United Kingdom still struggle.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910466280703321

Autore

Nobles Gary

Titolo

Dwelling on the edge of the Neolithic : investigating human behaviour through the spatial analysis of Corded Ware settlement material in the Dutch coastal wetlands (2900-2300 calBc) / / Gary [Robert] Nobles

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Groningen, [Netherlands] : , : Barkhuis Publishing & University of Groningen Library, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

94-92444-28-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (356 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Collana

Groningen Archaeological Studies ; ; Volume 32

Disciplina

569.9

Soggetti

Corded Ware culture - Netherlands

Neolithic period - Netherlands

Electronic books.

Netherlands Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.