This book provides information on birth control, how it works, the attitudes of women toward family planning and its importance, and contraception and its effectiveness, birth spacing, methods, and usage. It explains reproductive disorders in women and men, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and maternal and infant health concerns such as preterm birth, infant mortality, and mental health. Includes glossary...

"A groundbreaking and illuminating look at the state of abortion access in America and the first long-term study of the consequences-emotional, physical, financial, professional, personal, and psychological-of receiving versus being denied an abortion onwomen's lives"--

"In 1997, this groundbreaking book made a powerful entrance into the national conversation on race. In a media landscape dominated by racially biased images of welfare queens and crack babies, Killing the black body exposed America's systemic abuse of Black women's bodies. From slave masters' economic stake in bonded women's fertility to government programs that coerced thousands of poor Black women into being sterilized as late as the 1970s, these...

For years Paul Graves has tried to escape his past and forget about his sister's murder, but when he is called to Riverwood to write a story about a young girl who was killed more than forty years earlier, he is forced to face the demons that have always tormented him.

This is Margaret Higgins Sanger's 1922 work, "The Pivot of Civilization". Contents include: "A New Truth Emerges", "Conscripted Motherhood", "'Children Troop Down From Heaven....'", "The Fertility of the Feeble-Minded", "The Cruelty of Charity", "Neglected Factors of the World Problem", "Is Revolution the Remedy?", "Dangers of Cradle Competition", "A Moral Necessity", "Science the Ally", "Education and Expression", et cetera.

"A narrative history about Anthony Comstock, US Postal Inspector and vice hunter, and the remarkable women who opposed him"--