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Contraception a history Robert Jutte ; translated by Vicky Russell

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Malden, MA Polity Press 2008Description: x, 255 p ill 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780745632711
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.9609
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.
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Originally published as: Lust ohne Last : Geschichte der Empfangnisverhu*ung von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Originalausg (2003)

Translated from the German

Includes bibliographical references and index

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.

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