mnsss83 Birth Control Collection, 1923-2000 Finding Aid Finding aid prepared by mnsss. Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College
Northampton, MA
2003

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 Finding aid encoded using Perl scripts and edited in XMetal 2.0. Encoded by Laura Cutter. 2003-06-12 Finding aid written in English. 2005-09-23 mnsss83 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02-5c.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Sophia Smith CollectionSmith College Birth Control Collection, 1923-2000 Finding Aid MS 451 Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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 Collection Overview Birth Control Collection1923-2000 MS 451 1 box; 27 volumes (3.5 linear ft.) Sophia Smith Collection
Smith College Northampton, MA
This small collection is comprised of mostly books, plus some pamphlets, flyers, and other. Documents uses and misuses of contraception; family planning; sex in marriage; sex instruction; histories of the treatment of contraception by the church; population problems; fertility; and sterility. English. Scope and Contents of the Collection

Article "Poor Black Women," one of a series on female liberation chosen by Boston-area women and published by New England Free Press, 1968

This small collection is comprised of mostly books, plus one box of pamphlets, flyers, and other publications dating from 1923 to 2000, with the bulk of the materials dating from the 1930s. Topics relate primarily to uses and misuses of contraception; family planning; sex in marriage; sex instruction; histories of the treatment of contraception by the church; population problems; fertility; and sterility.

 Information on Use Terms of Access and Use

The collection is open to research according to the regulations of the Sophia Smith Collection.

Material in this collection may be protected by copyright. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy all copyright holders. Permission to publish reproductions or quotations beyond "fair use" must also be obtained from the Sophia Smith Collection as owners of the physical property.

Preferred Citation

Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:

Birth Control Collection, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.

 Additions to the Collection

Periodic additions to collection are expected.

History of the Collection

Most of the books in this collection were transferred from Neilson Library, Smith College. Other materials were either purchased or given to the Sophia Smith Collection by various donors.

Finding aid revised in 2002. Recent additions may not be reflected in the finding aid.

Search Terms Birth control--History--20th century--Sources Contraceptives--Research--History Human reproduction--Political aspects Population policy--History--20th century Sex in marriage Sex instruction--United States--History Hygiene, Sexual--History--20th century Women's health services--United States--History--20th century Women--Health and hygiene General 1 1 Publications and fliers, 1950-2002, n.d. 1 2 Birth control methods (handwritten and unidentified), n.d. 1 2b Lanteen Brown diaphram box Books on Shelf A Thousand Marriages: A Medical Study of Sex Adjustment, by Robert Latou Dickinson and Lura Beam, 1931 [foreword by Havelock Ellis] And the Poor Get Children, by Lee Rainwater and Karol Kane Weinstein, 1960 Biological and Medical Aspects of Contraception: Papers and Discussions Presented at the American Conference on Birth Control and National Recovery, edited by Margaret Sanger, 1934 Birth Control: Its Use and Misuse, by Dorothy Dunbar Bromley, 1934 [introduction by R. L. Dickinson] Birth Control Today: A Practical Approach to Intelligent Family Planning, by Leon F. Whitley, 1960 Birth Control in Practice: Analysis of Ten Thousand Case Histories of the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau, by Marie F. Kopp, 1933 Birth Control on Trial, by Lella Secor Florence, 1930 [foreword by Sir Humphrey Rolleston, Bart.; introductory note by F.H.A. Marshall] Contraception: A History of its Treatment by the Catholic Theologians and Canonists, by John T. Noonan, Jr., 1965 Controlled Fertility: An Evaluation of Clinic Services, by Regine K. Stix and Frank W. Notestein, 1940 Family Planning Movement in Japan, published by The Population Problems Research Council, 1953 [contents include speech by Margaret Sanger, essay by Shoichi Arai Family Limitation, by John Ryan, 1956 [foreword by Alan Keenan] Fertility and Sterility in Marriage: Their Voluntary Promotion and Limitation, by Th. H. Van De Velde; translated by F. W. Stella Browne, 1934 The Fifth International Conference on Planned Parenthood: Report of the Proceedings [Theme: Overpopulation and Family Planning], published by International Planned Parenthood Federation, 1955 Fruits of Philosophy or the Private Consumption of Adult People, by Charles Knowlton, 1937 [edited by Norman Hines] Medical History of Contraception, by Norman Himes, 1936 [foreword by R.L. Dickinson] The Modern Method of Birth Control, by Thurston S. Welton, 1935 Population and Planned Parenthood in India, by S. Chandrasekhar, 1955 [introduction by Julian Huxley] The Power of the Pill: Oral Contraceptives and Women's Career and Marriage Decisions, by Claudia Golden and Laurence F. Katz, 2000 The Practice of Contraception, edited by Margaret Sanger and Hannah M. Stone, 1931 [foreword by R.L. Dickinson} Report on the Sex Question by the Swedish Population Commission, translated and edited by Virginia Clay Hamilton, 1940 Seed: A Novel of Birth Control, by Charles G. Norris, 1940 Sex Problem in India, by N.S. Phadke, 1927 [foreword by Margaret Sanger] The Single Woman: A Medical Study in Sex Education, by R. L. Dickinson and Lura Beam, 1934 The Third International Conference on Planned Parenthood: Report of the Proceedings, published by The Family Planning Association, 1952 Tomorrow's Children: Proceedings of the Southern Conference on Tomorrow's Children (held in Atlanta, GA, November 9-11, 1939), published by the Birth Control Federation of America, 1939 The Truth About the New Birth Control Pills, by John Devaney and Philip Reaves, 1961 Wise Parenthood: The Treatise on Birth Control for Married People, A Practical Sequel to "Married Love": eleventh edition, by Marie Carmichael Stopes, 1923 [introduction by Arnold Bennett]