{"product_id":"historyofcontraceptionfromantiquitytothepresent-9780745632704","title":"historyofcontraceptionfromantiquitytothepresent","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContraception is not an invention of modern times, nor is it a purely personal matter. Social institutions such as the church and the state have exerted their influence as effectively as doctors, population theorists, and the early pioneers of the feminist movement. All of these claim a special expertise in matters of ethics and morality, and so have shaped the discourses on and practices of birth control over the centuries.  \u003cp\u003eIn this engaging new book Robert Jütte offers a history of contraception from the Ancient world to the present day. He distinguishes two broad phases: first, a long phase, extending from the Ancient world up to the 18th century, in which birth control was part of a traditional form of sexual knowledge what Jütte calls, following the French social philosopher Michel Foucault, the ars erotica. In the second phase, which began in the 19th century, practices of birth control are increasingly shaped by the emerging models of scientific knowledge, while still retaini\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What sets Jütte's work apart and makes this volume essential reading on the topic is its fine historiography and analysis of foregoing authors' projects.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Lancet\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Should prove useful to students and scholars alike.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A fascinating, detailed and well-researched insight into the social, cultural and religious influences that have influenced knowledge, attitudes, acceptance and use of fertility control throughout history.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eFamily Planning Association newsletter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A carefully researched survey that will provide useful material for those interested in comparing ideas about contraception in diff erent places and times.\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eEnglish Historical Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Robert Jütte’s extraordinary history of contraception enables us to look in an entirely new way at the claim of the 1960s generation that theirs was the first sexual revolution. The struggle for the control of sexual reproduction from the ancient world through the Middle Ages is as important to Jütte's story as are the rise of sexual science in the nineteenth century and the introduction of the pill in the twentieth. Indeed how 'modern' means exist side by side with 'traditional' means of birth control (some more efficient than others – but which?) haunts this entire history. A readable and fascinating account of woman’s age-old struggle.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eSander Gilman,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmory University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"The publication of an English version of Robert Jütte's \u003ci\u003eLust ohne Last\u003c\/i\u003e is greatly to be applauded. This extremely thoughtful and engagingly written study substantially exceeds earlier attempts to set down histories of contraception. Jütte has produced a chronologically wide-ranging cultural history and adopts a Foucauldian framework in which the issues of power and knowledge loom large throughout. As a result it is a work of great interest to social and cultural historians, demographers, historically minded social scientists, and historians of ideas, medicine and science.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eRichard Smith,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eUniversity of Cambridge\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of illustrations vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIllustration acknowledgements viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eForeword ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArs erotica: The Early Art of Contraception 11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe economics of sexual reproduction: birth control in the ancient world? 11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCalls for greater fertility: origin of the ethics of procreation in Judaism, Christianity and Islam 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe not so secret wisdom of ancient medicine 29\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePoetic truth: deliberate infertility as a theme in ancient literature 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnfruitful activities: 'suppositories for women' and herbal potions 42\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTransformations: The Supposed Repression of Knowledge about Contraception in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times 51\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA history of demographics and the origins of birth control 51\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSecreta mulierum: female wisdom on pregnancy and contraception 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSexual desire and atonement: the theology of the 'sinful flesh' 75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCastration, condoms, Casanovas: old and new methods of contraception 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Beginnings of scientia sexualis in the Nineteenth Century: The Impact of Moral and Political Imperatives on the Debate about Contraception 106\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(Neo-)Malthusianism and its demographical implications 106\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA fresh approach to knowledge: sex education pamphlets and theirreaders 117\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSexual politics: intensified control and resistance to it 139\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe practice of 'being careful': between tradition and progress 144\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Everyday Regime: The 'Democratization' of Birth Control in the Twentieth Century 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe promise of deliverance: contraception as emancipation 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 'Nationalization' of contraception: enforced sterilization and national birth control programmes 174\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChanges in sexual morality and the waning influence of religion 186\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSimultaneous existence of old and new methods of contraception 199\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFuture Prospects 216\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 'Pill for men': the contraceptive of the future? 216\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 221\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 237\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 247\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404366127447,"sku":"9780745632704","price":54.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745632704.jpg?v=1730486239","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/historyofcontraceptionfromantiquitytothepresent-9780745632704","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}