Textual contraception : birth control and modern American fiction / Beth Widmaier Capo.

Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2007], ©2007.

ix, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

"Lewd and lascivious" literature -- "As red and flaming as possible": radical rhetoric of the 1910s -- "For married women only": birth control and modern marriage -- "Conscious makers of people": achieving a free motherhood -- Reading the body, controlling the race: birth control and the eugenic impetus of the 1920s and 1930s -- The economics of desire and despair: birth control and the depression era -- Conclusion: textual contraception.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-212) and index.