AN EXAMINATION OF THE COMPLEX INTERRELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CHARITY BIRTH
CONTROL CLINICS AND THE COMMERCIAL MARKETPLACE IN THE UNITED STATES
THROUGH THE 1970S.
_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
womenit 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 ofpower? 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.
Rose Holz earned her PhD in history from the Universityof Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. She is associate director of and associate professor
of practice in the Women's and Gender Studies Program at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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9781571138293
Publisert
2020
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University of Rochester Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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