Contraception and the Working Classes: The Social Ideology of the English Birth Control Movement in its Early Years

Comparative Studies in Society and History

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1976, Pages 236-251

  McLaren, Angus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRACEPTION; FAMILY PLANNING; HISTORY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE;

CONTRACEPTION; FAMILY PLANNING; HISTORY OF MEDICINE, MODERN; OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE;

EID: 0017042865     PISSN: 00104175     EISSN: 14752999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0010417500008215     Document Type: Article

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