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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524657503321

Autore

Capo Beth Widmaier <1973->

Titolo

Textual Contraception : Birth Control and Modern American Fiction / / Beth Widmaier Capo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2007

©2007

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 220 p.) : : ill. ;

Disciplina

810.9/436346

Soggetti

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.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"50th, 1957-2007, Ohio State", on cover.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-212) and index.

Nota di contenuto

"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.