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Author(s): Layne Parish Craig
ISBN(s): 9780813562124, 0813562120
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 1.24 MB
Year: 2013
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0813562120

ISBN 13: 9780813562124 

Author: Layne Parish Craig

In When Sex Changed, Layne Parish Craig analyzes the ways literary texts responded to the political, economic, sexual, and social values put forward by the birth control movements of the 1910s to the 1930s in the United States and Great Britain.

Discussion of contraception and related topics (including feminism, religion, and eugenics) changed the way that writers depicted women, marriage, and family life. Tracing this shift, Craig compares disparate responses to the birth control controversy, from early skepticism by mainstream feminists, reflected in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland, to concern about the movement’s race and class implications suggested in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand, to enthusiastic speculation about contraception’s political implications, as in Virginia Woolf’s Three Guineas.

While these texts emphasized birth control’s potential to transform marriage and family life and emancipate women from the “slavery” of constant childbearing, birth control advocates also used less-than-liberatory language that excluded the poor, the mentally ill, non-whites, and others. Ultimately, Craig argues, the debates that began in these early political and literary texts—texts that document both the birth control movement’s idealism and its exclusionary rhetoric—helped shape the complex legacy of family planning and women’s rights with which the United States and the United Kingdom still struggle.

Table of contents:

Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: “Setting Motherhood Free”
1. “The Thing You Are!”: The Woman Rebel in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland Saga
2. “Six Sons at Eton”: Birth Control and the Medical Model in Joyce and Woolf
3. “That Means Children to Me”: The Birth Control Review in Harlem
4. “Unbridled Lust” and “Calamitous Error”: Religion, Eugenics, and Contraceptionin 1930s Family Sagas
5. “She Takes Good Care That the MatterWill End There”: The Artist’s Douche Bag in Three Guineas and If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem
Conclusion: Birth Control’s Afterlives
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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