Pg. 99: "The Sterilization Movement and Global Fertility in the Twentieth Century"

The current feature at the Page 99 Test: The Sterilization Movement and Global Fertility in the Twentieth Century by Ian R. Dowbiggin.

About the book, from the publisher:

Many would be surprised to learn that the preferred method of birth control in the United States today is actually surgical sterilization. This book takes an historical look at the sterilization movement in post-World War II America, a revolution in modern contraceptive behavior. Focusing on leaders of the sterilization movement from the 1930's through the turn of the century, this book explores the historic linkages between environment, civil liberties, eugenics, population control, sex education, marriage counseling, and birth control movements in the 20th-century United States.

Learn more about The Sterilization Movement and Global Fertility in the Twentieth Century at the Oxford University Press website.

Ian R. Dowbiggin is Professor of History and Chair, Department of History, University of Prince Edward Island. He is the author of Inheriting Madness: Professionalization and Psychiatric Knowledge in 19th C. France (1991), Keeping America Sane: Psychiatry and Eugenics in the United States and Canada, 1880-1940 (1997), Suspicious Minds: The Triumph of Paranoia in Everyday Life (1999) and A Merciful End: The Euthanasia Movement in Modern America (2003).

The Page 99 Test: The Sterilization Movement and Global Fertility in the Twentieth Century.

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