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

by Layne Parish Craig

Book Overview

In When Sex Changed, Layne Parish Craig 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.

Discussion of contraception and related topics (including feminism, religion, and eugenics) changed the way that writers depicted women, marriage, and family life. Tracing this shift, Craig...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813562104
• ISBN13: 9780813562100
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary