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Author Melcher, Mary S

Title Pregnancy, Motherhood, and Choice in Twentieth-Century Arizona
Edition 2nd ed
Published Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2012
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (263 pages)
Series Women's Western Voices
Women's western voices.
Contents Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. ""You're My Miracle": Babies, Birth Rates, and Health Care, 1910-1940; 2. Saving the Babies: Lowering Infant Mortality in the Southwest; 3. Margaret Sanger and the Arizona Birth Control Movement; 4. ""Tis a Sobering Experience": Providing Contraceptives for the Rural and Urban Poor; 5. Battling Poverty and Isolation to Improve Mothers' and Infants' Health; 6. ""Rhythm Babies," Birth Control, and Planned Parenthood: Years of Growth and Change; 7. Arizona and Abortion Reform: Conflict without Resolution
8. Providing Reproductive Health Care in a New, More Politicized Era9. Pregnancy and Choice: Reproductive Health in Twentieth-Century Arizona; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Notes Print version record
Subject Birth control -- Arizona -- History -- 20th century
Family planning -- Arizona -- History -- 20th century
Pregnant women -- Services for -- Arizona -- History -- 20th century
Prenatal care -- Arizona -- History -- 20th century
Mothers -- Services for -- Arizona -- History -- 20th century
Birth control
Family planning
Mothers -- Services for
Pregnant women -- Services for
Prenatal care
Arizona
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780816536795
0816536791