Any friend of the movement : networking for birth control, 1920-1940

Resource Information

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Label

Any friend of the movement : networking for birth control, 1920-1940

Title remainder

networking for birth control, 1920-1940

Statement of responsibility

Jimmy Elaine Wilkinson Meyer

Creator

• Meyer, Jimmy Elaine Wilkinson

Subject

• Birth control clinics -- United States
• Contraception
• Contraception -- history
• Family Planning Services
• Family Planning Services -- history
• Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
• History
• Maternal Health Association of Cleveland, Ohio
• Ohio
• Women's Health Services
• Women's Health Services -- history
• Birth control -- United States -- History -- 20th century

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

"In the 1920s, a few Cleveland women perceived a need for reliable birth control. They believed that health and social service professionals denied women, especially poor and working-class women, critical health care information. Any Friend of the Movement tells the story of these women, their actions, and the organization they created - the direct forerunner of a modern Planned Parenthood affiliate. The disparate threads of this particular tale include the suicide of a pregnant woman, the gift of a bereaved inventor, smuggling contraceptive supplies across state lines, and sponsoring ice skating galas to fund the work." "Any Friend of the Movement breaks new ground in the history of birth control activism in North America. Meyer argues that private philanthropy and voluntary action on the part of clinics like the Maternal Health Association (MHA) and their clients vitalized the larger movement at its roots and pushed it forward."--Jacket

Member of

• Women & health (Columbus, Ohio)

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

363.9/6/09730904

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

HQ766.5.U5

LC item number

M484 2004

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Women and health : cultural and social perspectives