Contraceptive Diplomacy: Reproductive Politics and Imperial Ambitions in the United States and Japan

by Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci

Book Overview

A transpacific history of clashing imperial ambitions, Contraceptive Diplomacy turns to the history of the birth control movement in the United States and Japan to interpret the struggle for hegemony in the Pacific through the lens of transnational feminism. As the birth control movement spread beyond national and racial borders, it shed its radical bearings and was pressed into the service of larger ideological debates around fertility rates and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503604403
• ISBN13: 9781503604407
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"