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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Abortion | |
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| Abortion and Birth Control Clinics | |
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| Abortion in the Nineteenth Century | |
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| Abortion in the Twentieth Century | |
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| Abstinence | |
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| African Slaves in the United States and Birth Control | |
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| Age at Pregnancy | |
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| American Birth Control League | |
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| American Medical Association | |
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| Anal Intercourse | |
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| Ancient Civilizations and Birth Control | |
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| Anemia, Diet, and Pregnancy | |
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| Apothecaries, Abortifacients, Contraceptives, and Patent Medicines | |
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| Augustine, Saint (d. 430) | |
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| Barrier Contraceptives | |
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| Besant, Annie (1847-1933) | |
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| Birth Control | |
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| Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau | |
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| Birth Control Review | |
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| Bradlaugh, Charles (1833-1891) | |
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| Bradlaugh-Besant Trial | |
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| Breast-feeding as a Method of Birth Control | |
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| Brownsville Birth Control Clinic | |
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| Cadbury, George (1907-1995) and Barbara (1910- ) | |
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| Canada and Birth Control | |
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| Canon Law and Abortion | |
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| Canon Law and Contraception | |
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| Carlile, Richard (1790-1843) | |
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| Catholic Church (American) and Birth Control | |
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| Cervical Cap | |
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| Cervical Rings | |
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| China and Birth Control | |
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| Christian Hostility to Birth Control | |
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| Classical Medical and Scientific Writers on Birth Control | |
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| Classical World | |
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| Coitus Interruptus (Withdrawal) | |
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| Coitus Reservatus | |
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| Comstock, Anthony (1844-1915), and Comstockery | |
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| Condom | |
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| Cooper, James F. (1880-1931) | |
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| Council of Trent and Catholic Tradition | |
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| Criminalizing of Abortion | |
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| Demography and Population Control in Early Modern Europe | |
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| Dennett, Mary Coffin Ware (1872-1947) | |
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| Diaphragm | |
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| Dickinson, Robert Latou (1861-1950) | |
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| Distribution of Contraceptive Products in Nineteenth-Century America | |
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| Douching | |
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| Drysdale, George (1825-1904) | |
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| Dung | |
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| Ejaculation and Pregnancy | |
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| Emergency Contraception | |
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| Eugenics | |
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| Family Planning as a Right (United Nations) | |
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| Fellatio as Contraceptive Technique | |
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| Fertile Period | |
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| Fertility in Males | |
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| Food and Drug Administration (United States) | |
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| Foote, Edward Bliss (1829-1906) | |
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| France and Birth Control | |
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| Freethinkers, Radicals, and Socialists | |
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| Gamble, Clarence James (1894-1966) | |
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| German Medical Contributors | |
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| Goldman, Emma (1869-1940) | |
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| Herbal Contraceptives and Abortifacients | |
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| Homosexuality as Birth Control | |
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| Hormones and Their Delivery for Contraceptive Purposes | |
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| Implants | |
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| India and Birth Control | |
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| Infant Mortality | |
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| Infanticide | |
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| Infibulation | |
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| Injectables | |
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| Intercourse, Age, and Pregnancy Potential | |
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| International Meetings and Congresses | |
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| Intrauterine Devices (IUDs) | |
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| Islam | |
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| Jailed | |
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| Judaism and the Jewish Tradition | |
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| Kaufman, Alvin Ratz (1885-?) | |
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| Knowlton, Charles (1800-1850) | |
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| Male Contraceptives | |
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| Male Potential for Impregnating | |
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| Malthus, Thomas Robert (1766-1834) | |
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| Masturbation | |
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| Maternity Ratio, Total | |
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| McCormick, Katharine Dexter (1875-1967) | |
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| Medieval Europe | |
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| Mineral Contraceptives and Abortifacients | |
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| Modernity and Falling Birthrates | |
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| Mothers' Clinic and Its Successors | |
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| National Birth Control League | |
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| Native Americans of California | |
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| Neo-Malthusians | |
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| Nineteenth-Century Fertility Trends in England and the United States | |
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| Noyes, John Humphrey (1811-1886) | |
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| Onanism | |
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| Opponents of Birth Control and Abortion in the Nineteenth Century | |
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| Oral Contraceptives | |
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| Owen, Robert Dale (1801-1877) | |
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| Pessary | |
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| Physiology of Reproduction | |
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| Pincus, Gregory Goodwin (1903-1967) | |
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| Place, Francis (1771-1854) | |
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| Plastic Wrap | |
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| Polygamy | |
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| Polygyny and Sex Ratios | |
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| Population Control and Organization | |
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| Pregnancy Potential | |
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| Protestantism in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries | |
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| Quickening | |
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| Robinson, William Josephus (1867-1936) | |
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| RU 486 | |
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| Sanger, Margaret Louise (Higgins) (1879-1966) | |
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| Self-help Literature in the Nineteenth Century | |
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| Serena | |
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| Social Purity Movement | |
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| Spermicides | |
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| Sponges, Tampons, and Vaginal Inserts | |
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| Sterile Period (Rhythm Method) | |
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| Sterilization | |
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| Stone, Hannah (1893-1941) | |
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| Stopes, Marie Charlotte Carmichael (1880-1958) | |
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| United States v. One Package | |
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| Vaginal Rings | |
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| Violence against Abortion Providers | |
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| Voluntary Parenthood League | |
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| Witchcraft, Contraception, and Abortion | |
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| Women and the Control of Reproduction | |
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| Yarros, Rachelle Slobodinsky (1869-1964) | |
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| World Survey of Birth Control Practices | |
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| Print and Nonprint Resources | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Editors and Contributors | |