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Subject(s)

• Abortion—United States—History [Browse]
• Birth control—United States—History [Browse]
• Pro-choice movement—United States—History [Browse]
• Pro-life movement—United States—History [Browse]

Related name

• Critchlow, Donald T., 1948- [Browse]

Series

• Issues in policy history ; #5. [More in this series]
• Issues in policy history ; #5 [More in this series]

Summary note

• While there is extensive literature on the social history, politics, and legal aspects of birth control and abortion in the United States, the history of family planning as a policy remains to be fully recorded. This volume is intended to contribute to this history by examining birth control and abortion within a larger cultural, policy, and comparative framework. The essays contained in this volume represent a variety of perspectives and scholarly interests. In many.
• Instances the authors differ with each other as well as with the editor on fundamental points of historical interpretation. They all, however, share a commitment to study the politics of population within a scholarly framework that emphasizes the importance of policy history for understanding past and contemporary problems.

Notes

"Originally published as a special issue of Journal of policy history (vol. 7, no. 1, 1995)"--T.p. verso.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-180).

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Birth control, population control, and family planning: an overview / Donald T. Critchlow
• The birth-control movement before Roe v. Wade / James W. Reed
• "Sound law and undoubtedly good policy" : Roe v. Wade in comparative perspective / Ian Mylchreest
• World population growth, family planning, and American foreign policy / John Sharpless
• Cultural politics at the edge of life / James Davison Hunter and Joseph E. Davis
• The right to life movement: sources, development, and strategies / Keth Cassidy
• The survival of the pro-choice movement / Suzanne Staggenborg.

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Other title(s)

Journal of policy history. Vol. 7, no. 1.

ISBN

0271015705 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^95038897^

OCLC

33132898

RCP

H - S

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