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Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The beginning of the modern contraceptive era began in 1882, when Dr. Aletta Jacobs opened the first birth control clinic in Amsterdam. The founding of this facility, and the clinical provision of contraception that it enabled, marked the moment when physicians started to take the prevention of pregnancy seriously as a medical concern. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Donna Drucker traces the history of modern contraception,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Greenwood, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
This book will serve as a scientifically accurate yet easy-to-read introduction to birth control for teens and young adults. The information, guidance, and resources it offers will help readers to make better decisions regarding their sexual health. --Publisher
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Description
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
A Slate Best Book of 2011
A Discover Magazine Best Book of 2011
Lianyungang, a booming port city, has China's most extreme gender ratio for children under four: 163 boys for every 100 girls. These numbers don't seem terribly grim, but in ten years, the skewed sex ratio will pose a colossal challenge. By the time those children reach adulthood, their generation will have twenty-four...
A Slate Best Book of 2011
A Discover Magazine Best Book of 2011
Lianyungang, a booming port city, has China's most extreme gender ratio for children under four: 163 boys for every 100 girls. These numbers don't seem terribly grim, but in ten years, the skewed sex ratio will pose a colossal challenge. By the time those children reach adulthood, their generation will have twenty-four...
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Why abortion is a men's issue. By focusing on the role men play in unwanted pregnancy, Ejaculate Responsibly gets us out of the destructive loop centered on issues like when life begins and the injustice of legislating women's bodies and presents a powerfully fair and effective way out of the abortion impasse. Highly readable, funny, and unflinching, the book's 28 arguments walk readers through the basics of fertility (men are 50 times more fertile...
Author
Publisher
Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"An eye-opening book that reveals crucial information every woman taking hormonal birth control should know. This groundbreaking book sheds light on how birth control affects women--and the world around them--in ways we are only just beginning to understand. By allowing women to control their fertility, the birth control pill has revolutionized women's lives. Women are going to college, graduating, and entering the workforce in greater numbers than...
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
A fictional portrait of one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century follows the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, who sacrificed two husbands, three children, and scores of lovers in her fight for sexual equality and freedom.
Author
Publisher
37 Ink/Atria
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
An outspoken, Christian reproductive justice advocate and abortion provider--one of the few doctors to provide such services to women in Mississippi and Alabama--pulls from his personal and professional journeys as well as the scientific training he received as a doctor to reveal how he came to believe that helping women in need, without judgment, is precisely the Christian thing to do.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, historian Felicia Kornbluh delivers an urgent book about two key reproductive rights victories in New York that set the tone for the nation. A Woman's Life Is a Human Life is the story of two movements that transformed the politics of reproductive rights: the fight to decriminalize abortion and the campaign against sterilization abuse, which happened disproportionately in communities...
10) The dark road
Author
Publisher
The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2013, ©2012.
Language
English
Description
"Far away from the Chinese economic miracle...is a vast rural hinterland, where life goes on much as it has for generations, with one extraordinary difference: "normal" parents are permitted by the state to have only a single child. 'The Dark Road' is the story of one such family..."--inside front cover.
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In this lively new biography, an historian argues convincingly that Margaret Sanger deserves the vaunted place in feminist history she once held. Baker's nuanced account of Sanger's life emphasizes the passion of her convictions.
13) Divided we stand: the battle over women's rights and family values that polarized American politics
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Forty years ago, two women's movements drew a line in the sand between liberals and conservatives. The legacy of that rift is still evident today in American politics and social policies,"--NoveList.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Okrent, the definitive and timely account of a forgotten dark chapter of American history. The Guarded Gate tells the story of the scientists who provided the intellectual justification for the harshest immigration law in American history and the men who turned their 'science' into politics. Brandished by the upper-class Bostonians and New Yorkers--many of them progressives--who led the anti-immigration movement,...
15) Among the hidden
Author
Series
Shadow children volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong.
16) Bannerless
Author
Series
Bannerless novels (Carrie Vaughn) volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
"A mysterious murder in a dystopian future leads a novice investigator to question what she's learned about the foundation of her population-controlled society. Decades after economic and environmental collapse destroys much of civilization in the United States, the Coast Road region isn't just surviving but thriving by some accounts, building something new on the ruins of what came before. A culture of population control has developed in which people,...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A first book by the education activist behind the Sex Plus YouTube series shares nonjudgmental advice for teens with questions about sex and sexuality, covering topics ranging from sexual empowerment and consent to LGBT challenges and STI and pregnancy prevention. --wordery.com.
Green shares nonjudgmental advice for teens about sex and sexuality. She covers topics ranging from sexual empowerment and content, to LGBT challenges and pregnancy prevention....
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"The image of the 'Welfare Queen' still dominates white America's perceptions of Black women. It is an image that also continues to shape our government's policies concerning Black women's reproductive decisions. Proposed legislation to alleviate poverty focuses on plans to deny benefits to children born to welfare mothers and to require insertion of birth-control implants as a condition of receiving aid. Meanwhile a booming fertility industry serves...
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