Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: “Setting Motherhood Free” 1
5. 1. “The Thing You Are!”: The Woman Rebel in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland Saga 22
6. 2. “Six Sons at Eton”: Birth Control and the Medical Model in Joyce and Woolf 47
7. 3. “That Means Children to Me”: The Birth Control Review in Harlem 76
8. 4. “Unbridled Lust” and “Calamitous Error”: Religion, Eugenics, and Contraception in 1930s Family Sagas 99
9. 5. “She Takes Good Care That the Matter Will End There”: The Artist’s Douche Bag in Three Guineas and If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem 124
10. Conclusion: Birth Control’s Afterlives 148
11. Notes 165
12. Bibliography 187
13. Index 201
14. About the Author 207