Introduction : a great thing for poor folks -- Teaching birth control on Tobacco Road and in Mill Village Alley : the history of public birth control services -- Nothing is removed except the possibility of parenthood : women and the politics of sterilization -- I knew that it was a serious crime : negotiating abortion before Roe v. Wade -- Taking foam powder and jellies to the natives : family planning goes abroad -- Epilogue : from the footnotes to the headlines : sterilization apologies and their lessons
Summary
This book situates North Carolina's reproductive politics in a national and global context. It demonstrates how each method for limiting unwanted pregnancies had the potential both to expand and to limit women's reproductive choices. Schoen's study allows deeper understandings of the modern welfare state and the lives of women
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
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