Any Friend of the Movement : Networking for Birth Control, 1920-1940 / Jimmy Elaine Wilkinson Meyer.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Women and health: cultural and social perspectives series | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2004Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015Copyright date: ©2004Description: 1 online resource (304 pages): illustrationsContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780814273333
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Contents:
Radical roots -- Nagging and networking -- Heir conditioning -- "Hubby and I think it's swell" -- Friends of the movement -- A new point of view.
Review: "In the 1920s, a few Cleveland women perceived a need for reliable birth control. They believed that health and social service professionals denied women, especially poor and working-class women, critical health care information. Any Friend of the Movement tells the story of these women, their actions, and the organization they created - the direct forerunner of a modern Planned Parenthood affiliate. The disparate threads of this particular tale include the suicide of a pregnant woman, the gift of a bereaved inventor, smuggling contraceptive supplies across state lines, and sponsoring ice skating galas to fund the work." "Any Friend of the Movement breaks new ground in the history of birth control activism in North America. Meyer argues that private philanthropy and voluntary action on the part of clinics like the Maternal Health Association (MHA) and their clients vitalized the larger movement at its roots and pushed it forward."--Jacket
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Radical roots -- Nagging and networking -- Heir conditioning -- "Hubby and I think it's swell" -- Friends of the movement -- A new point of view.

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"In the 1920s, a few Cleveland women perceived a need for reliable birth control. They believed that health and social service professionals denied women, especially poor and working-class women, critical health care information. Any Friend of the Movement tells the story of these women, their actions, and the organization they created - the direct forerunner of a modern Planned Parenthood affiliate. The disparate threads of this particular tale include the suicide of a pregnant woman, the gift of a bereaved inventor, smuggling contraceptive supplies across state lines, and sponsoring ice skating galas to fund the work." "Any Friend of the Movement breaks new ground in the history of birth control activism in North America. Meyer argues that private philanthropy and voluntary action on the part of clinics like the Maternal Health Association (MHA) and their clients vitalized the larger movement at its roots and pushed it forward."--Jacket

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