In:
The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, MIT Press, Vol. 34, No. 2 ( 2003-10), p. 235-262
Abstract:
As the first nation to undergo the fertility transition, France also experienced a demographic “crisis” concerning its drop in population. Contemporary reactions to the Neo-Malthusian effort to provide female contraceptives, and particularly to the feminist rhetoric of birth-control advocate Nelly Roussel, however, suggest that what was most threatening about female contraception was not the prospect of further depopulation but the idea of making motherhood a choice, thereby “de-naturalizing” women's bodies and threatening civilization itself.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0022-1953
,
1530-9169
DOI:
10.1162/002219503322649499
Language:
English
Publisher:
MIT Press
Publication Date:
2003
detail.hit.zdb_id:
6831-7
detail.hit.zdb_id:
1483082-6
SSG:
8
SSG:
3,4
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