Birth Control in Nineteenth-Century England

by Angus McLaren

Book Overview

The decline of the British birth rate was arguably the most important social change to occur in the last decades of the nineteenth century, but historians have shown remarkably little interest in the phenomenon. Most of the work done on the question has been by sociologists and reflects their assumption that the progressive adoption of birth control was largely a matter of the lower classes aping the behaviour of their 'betters'.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032279036
• ISBN13: 9781032279039
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 266 Pages