The Birth Control Clinic in a Marketplace World

Name: The Birth Control Clinic in a Marketplace World
Brand: University of Rochester Press
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By Rose Holz

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The Birth Control Clinic in a Marketplace World is the first book to chart the origins and evolution of the charity birth control clinic movement in the United States from the 1910s through the 1970s, a period that witnessed dramatic transformation in the goods and services such clinics provided. Rose Holz uncovers the virtually unexamined relationship between Planned Parenthood and the commercial marketplace sphere.
Challenging more than thirty years of historiography on birth control, Holz sheds new light on battles over reproductive rights through her analysis of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America within the context of the commercial birth control world. Revealing that it would be Planned Parenthood's engagement to charity -- the argument the organization once used to discredit the presumed profit-driven exploitation of the marketplace -- that would put precisely those women it hoped to assist in dangerous situations, she asks such probing questions as: What were the meanings attached to the provision of birth control and its commercial distribution? How in turn were these meanings used as sources of power? The project draws on rich primary sources to answer these questions and to examine the historical role of the local birth control clinic in modern America.

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Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 240
Release Date:: 2014-02-01
Publication Date:: 2014-02-01
Publisher:: University of Rochester Press
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1580464890
ISBN13:: 9781580464895
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 354 g
Height:: 152 cm
Width:: 229 cm
Thickness:: 13 cm

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