The empty cradle : infertility in America from Colonial times to the present / Margaret Marsh and Wanda Ronner.
Is infertility on the rise because women are delaying childbearing in order to pursue careers? Has it reached "epidemic" proportions among affluent and educated Americans? Does infertility affect the well-off more than the poor, or white Americans more than black Americans? Have the new re...
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[1996]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Denied "a Blessing of the Lord": Living with Barrenness in Early America
- 2. "Purely Surgical"? Technology, Instrumentation, and Redefinition of Sterility at Midcentury
- 3. The "Degeneracy of American Womanhood": Gynecology Redefines Infertility, 1870-1900
- 4. Framing Infertility: Sexuality, Marriage, and Parenthood in Twentieth-Century America
- 5. Degrees of Infertility: From the Sterile Woman to the Infertile Couple, 1900-1945
- 6. "Such Great Strides": Reproductive Technology in Postwar America, 1945-1965
- 7. "The End of the Beginning"? From Infertility Treatment to Assisted Reproduction, 1965-1981
- Epilogue: The Past in the Present: Putting Reproductive Technology in Perspective
- Appendix: How Reproduction Occurs.