Contraception: A HistoryISBN: 978-0-7456-3270-4
Hardcover
288 pages
May 2008, Polity
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The Lancet
"Should prove useful to students and scholars alike."
Times Higher Education
"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."
Family Planning Association newsletter
"A carefully researched survey that will provide useful material
for those interested in comparing ideas about contraception in diff
erent places and times."
English Historical Review
"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."
Sander Gilman, Emory University
"The publication of an English version of Robert Jütte's
Lust ohne Last 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."
Richard Smith, University of Cambridge