Thesis ID: CBB001561508

On Their Own Terms: African Americans and Birth Control in the Rural South, 1900--1942 (2007)

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Lawrence, Sarah Raphael (Author)


Pennsylvania State University
Mittelstadt, Jennifer
Ginzberg, Lori D.


Publication Date: 2007
Edition Details: Advisors: Mittelstadt, Jennifer; Lori D. Ginzberg
Physical Details: 248 pp.
Language: English

This dissertation challenges 20 th century U.S. birth control historiography by incorporating rural African Americans into the narrative. Beyond the important project of recovering citizens too often cast as passive players in their reproductive destinies, this work enhances understanding of how rural African Americans helped shape social and political reform in the decades before World War II. Localized interactions between birth control advocates and their rural "clients" illuminate tensions of class, race, region and gender in the context of national crisis and social rehabilitation. I explore how rural African Americans conceived notions of uplift, respectability, citizenship, progress, and modernization. Specifically, I look at how health ideologies relying on mutualism and female health authority influenced birth control educational strategies that differed from urban-based organizational models highlighting gender and class hierarchy and medical expertise.

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Description Cited in Diss. Abstr. Int. A 68/05 (2007). Pub. no. AAT 3266149.


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Authors & Contributors
Mooney, Katherine C.
Grossi, Élodie
Luke, Jenny M.
Spears, Ellen Griffith
Simon, Kristi M.
LaCount, Marilyn Ruth
Concepts
African Americans
African Americans and science
Medicine and race
Science and race
Public health
Health care
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
Modern
Places
United States
Southern states (U.S.)
Philadelphia, PA
Georgia (U.S.)
Weimar Republic (1919-1933)
Germany
Institutions
New Deal (1933-1939)
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