When Sex Changed: Birth Control Politics and Literature between the World Wars

by Layne Parish Craig

Overview

When Sex Changed analyzes the ways literary texts responded to the political, economic, sexual, and social values put forward by the birth control movements of the 1910s to the 1930s in the United States and Great Britain. The book compares disparate responses to the birth control controversy, from early skepticism by mainstream feminists, to concerns about the movement’s race and class implications, to enthusiastic speculation about contraception’s political implications.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813562124
Publisher:	Rutgers University Press
Publication date:	11/01/2013
Series:	American Literatures Initiative
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	216
File size:	703 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

LAYNE PARISH CRAIG is an instructor in the English department at Texas Christian University.

Editorial Reviews

With a transatlantic approach that yields fascinating results, Layne Craig’s When Sex Changed adds nuance, new insight, and fresh ideas to previous historical and literary studies of the birth control movement.”

author of Textual Contraception: Birth Control and Modern American Fiction - Beth Widmaier Capo

"In When Sex Changed, Craig breaks new ground by establishing the transnational nature of the 'political ascendance and gradual institutionalization of birth control as a family planning model' with a well-researched history of birth control politics. She succeeds in bringing to light new meanings buried in texts well combed-over by literary scholars."

Modernism/Modernity

"In When Sex Changed, Craig breaks new ground by establishing the transnational nature of the 'political ascendance and gradual institutionalization of birth control as a family planning model' with a well-researched history of birth control politics. She succeeds in bringing to light new meanings buried in texts well combed-over by literary scholars."

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