| Description |
x, 255 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Note |
Originally published as: Lust ohne Last : Geschichte der Empfangnisverhutung von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Originalausg. c2003. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-246) and index. |
| Note |
Translated from the German. |
| Contents |
List of illustrations -- Illustration acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Ars erotica : the early art of contraception -- The economics of sexual reproduction : birth control in the ancient world? -- Calls for greater fertility : origin of the ethics of procreation in Judaism, Christianity and Islam -- The not so secret wisdom of ancient medicine -- Poetic truth : deliberate infertility as a theme in ancient literature -- Unfruitful activities : 'suppositories for women' and herbal potions -- 2. Transformations : the supposed repression of knowledge about contraception in the Middle Ages and early modern times -- A history of demographics and the origins of birth control -- Secreta mulierum : female wisdom on pregnancy and contraception -- Sexual desire and atonement : the theology of the 'sinful flesh' -- Castration, condoms, Casanovas : old and new methods of contraception -- 3. The beginnings of scientia sexualis in the nineteenth century : the impact of moral and political imperatives on the debate about contraception -- (Neo)Malthusianism and its demographical implications -- A fresh approach to knowledge : sex education pamphlets and their readers -- Sexual politics : intensified control and resistance to it -- The practice of 'being careful' : between tradition and progress -- 4. An everyday regime : the 'democratization' of birth control in the twentieth century -- The promise of deliverance : contraception as emancipation -- The 'nationalization' of contraception : enforced sterilization and national birth control programmes -- Changes in sexual morality and the waning influence of religion -- Simultaneous existence of old and new methods of contraception -- 5. Future prospects -- The 'pill for men' : the contraceptive of the future? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Subject |
Contraception -- history. |
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Family Planning Services -- history. |
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Fertility. |
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Infertility. |
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Contraception -- History.
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Birth control -- History.
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| ISBN |
0745632718 (pb) |
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9780745632711 (pb) |
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9780745632704 |
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074563270X |
| Standard No. |
NLM 101480723 |
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NLGGC 300927568 |
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NZ1 11025005 |
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AU@ 000043197079 |
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