{"product_id":"history-of-contraception-from-antiquity-to-the-present-day-paperback-softback-9780631187295","title":"History of Contraception; From Antiquity to the Present Day (Paperback \/ softback) 9780631187295","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eHistory of Contraception\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFrom Antiquity to the Present Day\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAngus McLaren (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780631187295, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 8 October 1992\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e284 pages\u003cbr\u003e23 x 15.4 x 2.1 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Scholarly, comprehensive, but sprightly and readable ... a major piece of historical reclamation and discovery which will interest socioloists, historians and social anthropologists as well as less specialist readers ... He is mercifully free from the domination of French doctrinaires like M Foucault ... As McLaren shows with a mastery of his material that never palls, there have been attempts at fertility control since the era of the Greek city states. The emphasis he gives to women's experience of contraception, and to women's own efforts at fertillity control before the twentieth century, is particularly sensitive, shrewd and salutary.\" \u003ci\u003eNature\u003c\/i\u003e \u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A seasoned and sensitive scholar ... Angus McLaren deserves our thanks for integrating recent scholarship in demographic, family and gender history, to set the politics of procreation within its wider rationales.\" \u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"... clear and compelling ... strongly challenging the reader's commonsense idea of effective contraception as a product of modern times. McLaren, a Canadian historian, makes excellent use of both primary sources and British and American secondary work as well as his own research\". \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis bookm the first history of contraception for almost fifty years, provides a scholarly and highly readable account of procreation and attempts to prevent it from ancient Greece to the late twentieth century. The story, as the author shows, is not one of unalleviated progress, and anything but a simple passage from ignorance to enlightenment. Marshalling evidence from demography, medicine, literature, religious, family and women's history, he shows both that the idea of limiting progeny is ever-present in humna history and that mnay contraceptive practices have endured for at least two and a half millennia.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn cosidering questions of both motivation and method, Angus McLaren reveals the intimate interactions between reproductive decision-making on the one hand and social, economic, political and gender relationaships on the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgements vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Patterning of Fertility in Ancient Greece 12\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Fertility Control in Rome 42\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Abortion and Contraception in the Christian West 73\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Procreation in the Middle Ages 101\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Fertility Control in Early Modern Europe 141\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Neo-Malthusianism and the Fertility Transition 178\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 The Triumph of Family Planning 215\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 252\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 269\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20%5BHB%5D%22\"\u003eHB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52316776399128,"sku":"9780631187295","price":40.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780631187295.jpg?v=1781824703","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/history-of-contraception-from-antiquity-to-the-present-day-paperback-softback-9780631187295","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}