Barren in the Promised Land: Childless Americans and the Pursuit of HappinessHarvard University Press, 1997 - 318 Seiten Chronicling astonishing shifts in public attitudes toward reproduction, from the association of barrenness with the sin in colonial times, to the creation of laws for compulsory sterilization in the early twentieth century, from the baby craze of the 1950s, to the rise in voluntary childlessness in the 1990s, to the increasing reliance on startling reproductive technologies today, Elaine Tyler May reveals the intersection between public life and the most private part of our lives--sexuality, procreation, and family. |
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Childlessness Before | 21 |
Eugenics and the Pressure | 61 |
Class Race and Compulsory | 95 |
The Rise of Compulsory Parenthood | 127 |
Freud in the Bedroom Sex at the Clinic | 151 |
The Revolt Against the Baby Boom | 181 |
The Baby Quest and | 211 |
A Note on the Sample of Letters | 261 |
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