Informing the 'Broad Masses': Early‐Twentieth‐Century Birth Control Debates and Activism in the Polish‐American Community.
During 1925–26 and 1928, debates about birth control took place in the readers' column of North Star (Gwiazda Polarna), a US Polish language weekly. These discussions provide a rare insight into how ideas spread by the US birth control movement were received by an immigrant and ethnic working‐class...
| Publicado en: | Gender & History Vol. 37; no. 2; pp. 667 - 684 |
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