[PDF.01zn] Barren in the Promised Land: Childless Americans and the Pursuit of Happiness

Barren in the Promised Land: Childless Americans and the Pursuit of Happiness

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 | #2436423 in Books |  Harvard University Press |  1997-04-25 |  1997-05-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.25 x.83 x6.13l,.96 | File type: PDF | 336 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Interesting History|By Sockosim|Jeffrey Leach gives an excellent review of what the book is about, so I won't repeat what he says. It is very readable and I found it an interesting history of childlessness in America and its impact on infertile couples. The chapter on forced sterilization adds to the understanding of how much the eugenics movement was intertwined with donor ar|From Publishers Weekly|"Do we want children?" This major question has only recently been asked in our society. As May, professor of American studies at the University of Minnesota, points out in this well-thought-out analysis, childbearing was an economic necess

Chronicling astonishing shifts in public attitudes toward reproduction, from the association of barrenness with sin in colonial times, to the creation of laws for compulsory sterilization in the early twentieth century, from the baby craze of the 1950s, to the rise in voluntary childlessness in the 1990s, to the increasing reliance on startling reproductive technologies today, Elaine Tyler May reveals the intersection between public life and the most private part of our ...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Barren in the Promised Land: Childless Americans and the Pursuit of Happiness   |  Elaine T. May. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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