Contraception and Abortion in Nineteenth-Century America : A Critical Edition of the 'Symphonia Armonie Celestium Revelationum' (Symphony of the Harmon

Drawing from a wide range of private and public sources, examines how American families gradually found access to taboo information and products for controlling the size of their families from the 1830s to the 1890s when a puritan backlash made most of it illegal. Emphasizes the importance of two sh