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By Janet Farrell Brodie. 373 pp. Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 1994. $33.95. ISBN 0-8014-2849-1.

Regardless of official political or religious policy, attempts to control fertility have been made since antiquity. Women have usually initiated limitations on fertility, a subject that in many societies has been, and still is, considered unsuitable for open discussion. Information has been passed on orally or by means of ephemera such as pamphlets, periodicals, and package instructions. These items, which are usually discarded or recycled, challenge the historian.

From these and other sources, Brodie has constructed a history of changes in fertility control among women living in the United States during the 19th century. She introduces the subject with her . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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