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The bedroom and the state : the changing practices and politics of contraception and abortion in Canada, 1880-1997 / Angus McLaren and Arlene Tigar McLaren.
- Title
- The bedroom and the state : the changing practices and politics of contraception and abortion in Canada, 1880-1997 / Angus McLaren and Arlene Tigar McLaren.
- Author
- McLaren, Angus
- Publication
- Toronto ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
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- Additional Authors
- McLaren, Arlene Tigar
- Description
- 209 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "The decline of the birth rate is arguably the most important social change of the twentieth century in Canada. The Bedroom and the State, first published in 1986, examines the social, cultural, and technological reasons for this decline and answers such questions as: What forms of contraception were used prior to the Pill? How widespread and dangerous has abortion been? Why were so many feminists, socialists, ministers, and doctors initially opposed to birth control? Who were its first proponents in Canada? Why has Quebec's birth rate fallen so precipitously? Why was contraception illegal until 1969? The Bedroom and the State is recognized as a landmark history of how Canadian men and women sought to limit births and how public figures sought to turn such concerns to political purposes. In this second edition the authors have updated their conclusion and added a new chapter to cover the denouement of the pro-choice/pro-life debate in Canada, to detail recent court challenges to Canadian law, and to describe recent developments in reproductive technologies and their significance for present and future generations. This excellent work reveals that the control of fertility has been a crucial factor in the history of the shifting power relationships of the sexes and the classes." --
- Series Statement
- Canadian social history series
- Uniform Title
- Canadian social history series
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-199) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Women's struggle to limit their fertility: Contraceptive practices in Canada -- Abortion as birth control -- Promises of sexual and social emancipation: Social feminists, maternal feminists, and family limitation -- Socialism versus malthusianism -- Population control and reproductive rights: A.R. Kaufmann and the birth control campaign in central Canada -- Quebec fertility and criminal law reform -- Back to the future -- Conclusion.
- ISBN
- 0195413180 (acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^99179693^
- OCLC
- 41040035
- SCSB-12422448
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library