The Canadian birth control movement on trial, 1936-1937.

نویسنده

  • D Dodd
چکیده

A birth control movement emerged in Canada in the 1930s with the formation of several clinics and agencies devoted to the dissemination of information on birth control. The arrest of Dorothea Palmer, a social worker employed by one of these agencies, the Parents' Information Bureau, resulted in a precedent-setting trial during which the new movement argued for the benefits of birth control. In light of the economic situation of the 1930s, the argument that birth control could have an ameliorative effect on poverty, unemployment, social distress and genetic impurity convinced the court that birth control offered a solution to these economic and social problems. That women had a right to birth control was heard from many of the women actively involved in the movement, but this view was overshadowed by the economic and social arguments of the movement's political leaders.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Histoire sociale. Social history

دوره 16 32  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1983