Pregnancy, Motherhood, and Choice in Twentieth-Century Arizona.

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Main Author: Melcher, Mary S.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2012
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Women's western voices.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. ""You're My Miracle": Babies, Birth Rates, and Health Care, 1910-1940; 2. Saving the Babies: Lowering Infant Mortality in the Southwest; 3. Margaret Sanger and the Arizona Birth Control Movement; 4. ""Tis a Sobering Experience": Providing Contraceptives for the Rural and Urban Poor; 5. Battling Poverty and Isolation to Improve Mothers' and Infants' Health; 6. ""Rhythm Babies," Birth Control, and Planned Parenthood: Years of Growth and Change; 7. Arizona and Abortion Reform: Conflict without Resolution.
  • 8. Providing Reproductive Health Care in a New, More Politicized Era9. Pregnancy and Choice: Reproductive Health in Twentieth-Century Arizona; Notes; Bibliography; Index.