This special issue uses Catholicism as a thread to bring together five contributions to the transnational history of contraception. The articles, which cover examples from Western and East-Central Europe, East Africa and Latin America, all explore the complex interplay between users and providers of birth control in contexts marked by prevalence of the Catholic religion and/or strong political position of the Catholic Church. In the countries examined here, Brazil, Belgium, Poland, Ireland and Rwanda, Catholicism was the majority religion during the different moments of the long twentieth century the authors of this special issue focus on. Using transnationalism as a perspective to examine the social history of the entanglements between Catholicism and contraception, this special issue seeks to underscore the ways in which individuals and organisations used, adapted and contested local and transnational ideas and debate around family planning. It also examines the role of experts and activist groups in the promotion of family planning, while paying attention to national nuances in Catholic understandings of birth control. The contributions shed light on the motivations behind involvement in birth control activism and expertise, its modus operandi, networking strategies and interactions with men and women demanding contraceptive information and technology. Moreover, through the use of oral history, as well as other print sources such as women’s magazines, this collection of articles seeks to illustrate ‘ordinary’ men and women’s practices in the realm of reproductive health.
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Prescott, Heather Munro;
(2011)
The Morning After: A History of Emergency Contraception in the United States
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Article
Necochea López, Raúl;
(2014)
Gambling on the Protestants: The Pathfinder Fund and Birth Control in Peru, 1958--1965
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Natasha Szuhan;
(2022)
The Family Planning Association and Contraceptive Science and Technology in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain
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Malich, Lisa;
(2012)
Vom Mittel der Familienplanung zum differenzierenden Lifestyle-Präparat
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Article
Anne-Sophie Crosetti;
(2020)
The ‘Converted Unbelievers’: Catholics in Family Planning in French-Speaking Belgium (1947–73)
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Article
Cassia Roth;
Luiz Antônio Teixeira;
(2021)
From Embryotomy to Cesarean: Changes in Obstetric Operatory Techniques in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Urban Brazil
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Article
Meehan, Seth;
(2010)
From Patriotism to Pluralism: How Catholics Initiated the Repeal of Birth Control Restrictions in Massachusetts
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Isabel Heinemann;
(2020)
Vom „Kindersegen“ zur „Familienplanung“? Eine Wissensgeschichte reproduktiven Entscheidens in der Moderne 1890–1990
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Caroline Rusterholz;
(2020)
Women's medicine: Sex, family planning and British female doctors in transnational perspective, 1920–70
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Article
Hartmann, Heinrich;
Unger, Corinna R.;
(2010)
Einleitung: Zur transnationalen Wissensgeschichte der Demografie
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Article
Nelson, Jennifer;
(2014)
“Breaking the Chain of Poverty”: Family Planning, Community Involvement, and the Population Council--Office of Economic Opportunity Alliance
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Thesis
Necochea Lopez, Raul;
(2010)
A History of the Medical Control of Fertility in Peru, 1895--1976
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Greenhalgh, Susan;
(2008)
Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng's China
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Holz, Rosemarie Petra;
(2012)
The Birth Control Clinic in a Marketplace World
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Raúl Necochea López;
(2014)
A History of Family Planning in Twentieth-Century Peru
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Article
Silies, Eva-Maria;
(2010)
Verhütung als Mittel gegen Bevölkerungswachstum. Expertendiskussion und öffentliche Debatten in Westdeutschland in den 1960er Jahren
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Article
Meldrum, Marcia;
(2012)
Women Making Contraceptive Choices in 20th-Century America
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Trent MacNamara;
(2018)
Birth Control and American Modernity: A History of Popular Ideas
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Nicole C. Bourbonnais;
(2016)
Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean: Reproductive Politics and Practice on Four Islands, 1930–1970
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Sarah Mellors Rodriguez;
(2022)
Reproductive Realities in Modern China: Birth Control and Abortion, 1911–2021
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