Craig, Layne Parish.

When sex changed : birth control politics and literature between the world wars / Layne Parish Craig. - 1 online resource (219 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Setting motherhood free -- The thing you are!: the woman rebel in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland saga -- Six sons at Eton: birth control and the medical model in Joyce and Woolf -- That means children to me: the birth control review in Harlem -- Unbridled lust and calamitous error: religion, eugenics, and contraception in 1930s family sagas -- She takes good care that the matter will end there: the artist's douche bag in three guineas and if I forget thee, Jerusalem -- Conclusion: Birth control's narrative afterlives.

9780813562124 (e-book)


American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
English literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Women and literature.
Birth control in literature.
Feminism and literature.
Eugenics in literature.
Birth control--Social aspects--United States.
Birth control--Social aspects--Great Britain.


Electronic books.

PS228.W65 / C73 2013eb

810.9/9287

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