Contents
Foreword XX
Introduction XX
Ars erotica: the early arts of birth control XX
The Economics of Sexual Reproduction: birth control in the ancient world? XX - Calls for greater Fertility: origins of the reproduction ethic in Judaism, Christianity and Islam XX - The not so secret Lore of Ancient Medicine XX - Poetic Truth: deliberate infertility as a theme in ancient literature XX - Unfruitful Activities: “suppositories for women” and herbal potions XX
Transformations: the supposed repression of birth control knowledge in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times XX
A History of Demographics and the Origins of Birth Control XX - Secreta mulierum: female lore on pregnancy and birth control XXX - Sexual Desire and Atonement: a theology of “the sinful flesh” XXX - Castration, Condoms, Casanovas: techniques of birth control old and new XXX
The Commencement of scientia sexualis in the 19th century: the effects of moral and political imperatives on the discourse on birth control XXX
(Neo-) Malthusianism and its Implications for Demographics XXX - A fresh approach to knowledge: educational sex brochures and their readers XXX - Sexual politics: intensified control and its counter resistance XXX - The practice of “being careful” - between tradition and progress XXX
A Day to Day Regime: the “democratisation” of birth control in the 20th century
A Promise of Deliverance: the “nationalisation” of birth control: enforced sterilisation and national birth control programmes XXX - Sexual Morality in Transition and the waning Influence of Religion XXX - synchronicity and the asynchronous: birth control techniques old and new XXX
Future Prospects
“A contraceptive Pill for men” - the contraceptive of the future XXX
Notes XXX - Bibliography XXX
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