Description
In the late nineteenth century, the Comstock Act of 1873 made the distribution of contraception illegal and classified contraception as an obscenity. Reflecting the predominant attitude towards contraception at the time, the Comstock Act was the first federal anti-obscenity law that targeted contraception. However, social acceptance of birth control changed at the turn of the twentieth century. In this thesis, I analyzed legislation, advocates, and literature pertinent to that social change to report on the events leading up to the decriminalization of contraception.
Details
Title
- Thesis: Dismantling Legal Constraints to Contraception in the 1900s
Contributors
- Malladi, Lakshmeeramya (Author)
- Tuoti, Whitney Alexandra (Editor)
- Arizona State University. School of Life Sciences. Center for Biology and Society. Embryo Project Encyclopedia. (Publisher, Publisher)
- Arizona Board of Regents (Publisher)
Date Created
The date the item was original created (prior to any relationship with the ASU Digital Repositories.)
2021-01-27
Subjects
Keywords
- Comstock Act of 1873
- People
- Legal
- Mary Dennett
- Margaret Sanger
- Birth control advocates
- History of societal views on contraception
- Essays and Theses
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