By Waltraud Maierhofer,Beth Widmaier Capo

 “No girl can name herself unfastened who doesn't personal and keep an eye on her body.” virtually a century after Margaret Sanger wrote those phrases, women’s reproductive rights are nonetheless hotly debated within the press and between policymakers, whereas movie, tv and different media tackle problems with contraception and abortion to worldwide audiences.
This number of new essays brings clean views to the examine of family members making plans, birth control and abortion with a spotlight on their illustration in well known media. themes contain dramas of adoption and abortion, telling the tale of the capsule, Sanger’s depiction in leisure media, and an argument approximately demographic advancements stirred by means of Carl Djerassi, sometimes called “the father of the pill.”

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