Description: Fit to Be Tied : Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in America, 1, Hardcover by Kluchin, Rebecca M., ISBN 0813545277, ISBN-13 9780813545271, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US The 1960s revolutionized American contraceptive practice. Diaphragms, jellies, and condoms with high failure rates gave way to newer choices of the Pill, IUD, and sterilization. Fit to Be Tied provides a history of sterilization and what would prove to become, at once, socially divisive and a popular form of birth control. During the first half of the twentieth century, sterilization (tubal ligation and vasectomy) was a tool of eugenics. Individuals who endorsed crude notions of biological determinism sought to control the reproductive decisions of women they considered "unfit" by nature of race or class, and used surgery to do so. Incorporating first-person narratives, court cases, and official records, Rebecca M. Kluchin examines the evolution of forced sterilization of poor women, especially women of color, in the second half of the century and contrasts it with demands for contraceptive sterilization made by white women and men. She chronicles public acceptance during an era of reproductive and sexual freedom, and the subsequent replacement of the eugenics movement with "neo-eugenic" standards that continued to influence American medical practice, family planning, public policy, and popular sentiment.
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Book Title: Fit to Be Tied : Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in America
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: FIT to Be Tied : Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in America, 1950-1980
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: United States / 20th Century, Civil Rights, Abortion & Birth Control, Women's Studies, History
Item Height: 1.1 in
Publication Year: 2009
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 20 Oz
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, History, Medical
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Rebecca M. Kluchin
Series: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
