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“Keep Your Seats and Face Facts”: Western Canadian Women's Discussion of Birth Control in the 1920s

Author(s) -

Angus McLaren

Publication year - 1991

Publication title -

canadian journal of health history

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.117

H-Index - 13

eISSN - 2371-0179

pISSN - 0823-2105

DOI - 10.3138/cbmh.8.2.189

Subject(s) - face (sociological concept) , context (archaeology) , limiting , birth control , fertility , subject (documents) , history , product (mathematics) , political science , gender studies , sociology , demography , social science , family planning , population , engineering , research methodology , library science , archaeology , mechanical engineering , geometry , mathematics , computer science

Written evidence of 'ordinary' Canadians discussing in the first decades of this century the motives for and the means of limiting family size is rare. The letters on this subject that were printed in The Western Producer in 1927 are therefore of special interest. In placing them in context one is reminded that the struggle to control fertility - far from being a product of the post-World-War-II age - has a long history.

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