| 1. Title: Birth control in nineteenth-century England. Author: McLaren A Source: London, Croom Helm, 1978. 263 p. Abstract: There are 4 themes in this book on birth control in England during the 19th century: 1) there was never to be any pure ideology either favoring or opposing birth control; 2) due to the fact that means of contraception were available by 1800, the spread of family limitation has to be regarded as not so much the result of the diffusion of an innovative technique as an adjustment of the working class family to new economic and social conditions; 3) the notion that women's attitudes towards fertility control would differ from those of men; and 4) birth control was a form of medical "self-help" which physicians would, for professional reasons, oppose. The book's four sections are devoted to discussions of the following: 1) quackery and control of fertility in 18th century England; 2) contraception and the class struggle (the beginning of the birth control debate, contraception and working class movements, birth control and medical self-help, and birth control and the morality of married life); 3) neo-Malthusianism and its late 19th century critics (the Malthusian League, birth control and the British medical profession, birth control and eugenics, socialists and birth control, feminism and fertility control; and 4) birth control and the working classes and abortion in England during the 1890-1914 period. Language: English Keywords: UNITED KINGDOM | CONTRACEPTION | ATTITUDES | WOMEN'S STATUS | ABORTION | SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS | POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS | United Kingdom | Europe, Western | Europe | Developed Countries | Family Planning | Psychological Factors | Behavior | Economic Factors | Fertility Control, Postconception | Demographic Factors | Population Document Number: 785024 Notification |
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