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Fit to Be Tied
2009
Overview
The 1960s revolutionized American contraceptive practice. Diaphragms, jellies, and condoms with high failure rates gave way to newer choices of the Pill, IUD, and sterilization.Fit to Be Tiedprovides a history of sterilization and what would prove to become, at once, socially divisive and a popular form of birth control.
During the first half of the twentieth century, sterilization (tubal ligation and vasectomy) was a tool of eugenics. Individuals who endorsed crude notions of biological determinism sought to control the reproductive decisions of women they considered \"unfit\" by nature of race or class, and used surgery to do so. Incorporating first-person narratives, court cases, and official records, Rebecca M. Kluchin examines the evolution of forced sterilization of poor women, especially women of color, in the second half of the century and contrasts it with demands for contraceptive sterilization made by white women and men. She chronicles public acceptance during an era of reproductive and sexual freedom, and the subsequent replacement of the eugenics movement with \"neo-eugenic\" standards that continued to influence American medical practice, family planning, public policy, and popular sentiment.
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Subject
/ Birth control -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century
/ Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
/ Critical Issues in Health and Medicine series
/ Family Planning Policy -- history -- United States
/ History
/ HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
/ MEDICAL
/ Reproductive rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
/ Socioeconomic Factors -- United States
/ Sterilization (Birth control)
/ Sterilization (Birth control) -- United States -- History -- 20th century
/ Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in America
/ Sterilization, Involuntary -- legislation & jurisprudence -- United States
/ Sterilization, Reproductive -- history -- United States
/ U.S.A
ISBN
9780813548319, 0813548314, 0813545277, 9780813545271, 081354999X, 9780813549996
