In Australia for 200 years, decisions about family size have been governed by the social and economic environment in which men and women lived. Despite exhortations by governments, doctors, academics and the churches to bear large families to fill the vast, empty continent, to provide a workforce for industry and a fighting force for defence against invasion, women have struggled for the right to control their own fertility. This is the story of the history of family planning in Australia, researching and documenting the advances in contraception from do-it-yourself folklore recipes to the introduction of the pill in 1961, which opened the door to reproductive freedom.
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Höhe: 230 mm
Breite: 180 mm
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978-0-04-442220-4 (9780044422204)
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Part 1: Childbearing; a woman's duty?; Mothers or prostitutes; the birthrate continues to fall. Part 2: The methods of contraception; The search for the ideal contraceptive; the "rhythm" methods: natural family planning. Part 3: The abortion saga; women's rights versus the right to life; the struggle to change the law. Part 4: Birth control and society; eugenics, VD and the birth control movement; the barriers come down; access for all. Part 5: The family planning association; the pioneers; the new wave family planning movement; the state family planning associations.
