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- catalog abstract ""This book, the first history of contraception for almost fifty years, provides a scholarly and highly readable account of procreation and attempts to prevent it from ancient Greece to the late twentieth century. The story, as the author shows, is not one of unalleviated progress, and anything but a simple passage from ignorance to enlightenment. Marshalling evidence from demography, medicine, literature, religious, family and women's history, he shows both that the idea of limiting progeny is ever present in human history and that many contraceptive practices have endured for at least two and a half millennia. In considering questions of both motivation and method, Angus McLaren reveals the intimate interactions between reproductive decision-making on the one hand and social, economic, political and gender relationships on the other."--Back cover.".
- catalog contributor b2935006.
- catalog created "1990 (1992 [printing])".
- catalog date "(1992 [printing])".
- catalog date "1990".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1990".
- catalog description ""This book, the first history of contraception for almost fifty years, provides a scholarly and highly readable account of procreation and attempts to prevent it from ancient Greece to the late twentieth century. The story, as the author shows, is not one of unalleviated progress, and anything but a simple passage from ignorance to enlightenment. Marshalling evidence from demography, medicine, literature, religious, family and women's history, he shows both that the idea of limiting progeny is ever present in human history and that many contraceptive practices have endured for at least two and a half millennia. In considering questions of both motivation and method, Angus McLaren reveals the intimate interactions between reproductive decision-making on the one hand and social, economic, political and gender relationships on the other."--Back cover.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction --- 1. The Patterning of Fertility in Ancient Greece --- 2. Fertility Control in Rome --- 3. Abortion and Contraception in the Christian West --- 4. Procreation in the Middle Ages --- 5. Fertility Control in Early Modern Europe --- 6. Neo-Malthusianism and the Fertility Transition --- 7. The Triumph of Family Planning --- Conclusion.".
- catalog extent "viii, 275 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0631187294 (pbk.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Family, sexuality, and social relations in past times".
- catalog issued "1990".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell,".
- catalog subject "363.96 20".
- catalog subject "Birth control History.".
- catalog subject "Contraception History.".
- catalog subject "Family Planning Services History.".
- catalog subject "Family planning History.".
- catalog subject "HQ 766 M478h 1990".
- catalog subject "HQ766 .M35 1991".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction --- 1. The Patterning of Fertility in Ancient Greece --- 2. Fertility Control in Rome --- 3. Abortion and Contraception in the Christian West --- 4. Procreation in the Middle Ages --- 5. Fertility Control in Early Modern Europe --- 6. Neo-Malthusianism and the Fertility Transition --- 7. The Triumph of Family Planning --- Conclusion.".
- catalog title "A history of contraception : from antiquity to the present / Angus McLaren.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".