Contraception

“Drucker uses the powerful lens of reproductive justice to rethink the history of contraception. A concept developed by feminist thinkers and activists of colour, the history of which Drucker examines in detail in the fifth chapter, reproductive justice requires consideration of local and global stratifications and gendered, racialised, and classed power imbalances relating to reproduction in three key areas: ‘the right to have a child, the right to not have a child, and the right to parent children safely and healthily’ … Contraception: A Concise History provides an excellent introduction to the history of contraception. The book is well-written and well organised, persuasively argued and innovative in using the reproductive justice perspective to revisit some well-known milestones in the history of contraception and to shed light on less-known ones, particularly in the history of spermicides.”
–Metascience

Donna J. Drucker is Assistant Director of Scholarship and Research Development at the Columbia University School of Nursing. She is the author of Contraception- A Concise History, The Classification of Sex- Alfred Kinsey and the Organization of Knowledge, and The Machines of Sex Research- Technology and the Politics of Identity, 1945-1985.

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