{"product_id":"contraception-and-abortion-in-nineteenth-century-janet-farrell-brodie-9780801428494","title":"Contraception and Abortion in Nineteenth-Century America: A Critical Edition of the \"Symphonia Armonie Celestium Revelationum\" (Symphony of the Harmon","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn pocket-sized, coded diaries, an upper middle-class American woman named Mary Poor recorded with small \"x's\" the occasions of sexual intercourse with her husband Henry over a twenty-eight-year period. Janet Farrell Brodie introduces this engaging pair early in a book that is certain to be the definitive study of family limitation in nineteenth-century America. She makes adroit use of Mary's diaries and letters to lift a curtain on the intimate life of a Victorian couple attempting to control the size of their family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWere the Poors typical? Who used reproductive control in the years between 1830 and 1880? What methods did they use and how did they learn about them? By examining a wide array of sources, Brodie has determined how Americans gradually were able to get birth control information and products that allowed them to choose among newer, safer, and more effective contraceptive and abortive methods. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrodie's findings in druggists' catalogues, patent records, advertisements, \"vice society'' documents, business manuscripts, and gynecological advice literature explain how information spread and often taboo matters were made commercial. She retraces the links among obscure individuals, from itinerant lecturers, to book publishers, to contraceptive goods manufacturers and explains the important contributions of two nascent networks-medical practitioners known as Thomsonians and watercurists, and iconoclastic freethinkers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrodie takes her narrative to the backlash at the end of the century, when American ambivalence toward abortion and contraception led to federal and state legislative restrictions, the rise of special \"purity legions,\" the influence of powerful reformers such as Anthony Comstock, and the vehement opposition of medical professionals. In this balanced and timely book Brodie shows a keen sensitivity to the complex factors behind today's politically, emotionally, and intellectually charged battles over reproductive rights.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Janet Farrell Brodie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801428491\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801428494\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/28\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.88d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/15\/1994 pg. 1488\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/1994 pg. 115","brand":"Janet Farrell Brodie","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43926113550591,"sku":"9780801428494","price":59.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_fddc75d9-7192-4821-a749-2ac8d73208a8.jpg?v=1681081277","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/contraception-and-abortion-in-nineteenth-century-janet-farrell-brodie-9780801428494","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}