Contains chapters about pornography, sexology, therapy, literature, politics, abortion, the gay and feminist movement, pedophilia, and the sexual revolution from a transnational perspective. The geographical focus includes: Germany, Sweden, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, the Soviet Union and the United States.
This collection follows the process of reproduction from conception and contraception, to birth and parenthood. The contributors explore several key themes: narratives of pregnancy and birth, the patient-consumer, and literary representations of childbearing. This book explores how these issues have been constructed, represented and experienced in a range of geographical locations from the seventeenth to the twentieth century.