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

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.

Author(s): Layne Parish Craig
Publisher: American Literatures Initiativ
Published: 2013
Pages: 206
Categories: Literary Criticism