Fit to Be Tied: Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in America, 1950-1980, Paperback

de: Rebecca M. Kluchin

 

Publicat de: Rutgers University Press

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Description

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 Tied provides 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.

About the Author

Rebecca M. Kluchin is an assistant professor of history at California State University, Sacramento.

General
Anul 2011
Autor Rebecca M. Kluchin
Cod de bare 9780813549996
Editura Rutgers University Press
Dimensiuni 228.6 x 149.9
ISBN 081354999X
Limba Engleza
Pagini 269
Format Brosata

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