| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

You have not been recognized as a subscriber to JAH online. About 204 words from this article are provided below; about 356 words remain.

If you are a individual member of the Organization of American Historians, you may:: • login here if you have already registered for online access.; • Or if you're already logged in register your subscription.
• Set up your online account for the first time.
If you are not a member of the Organization of American Historians, you can:: • Join the OAH and receive many member benefits including print and electronic issues of the Journal of American History.
• Purchase a research pass to gain two-hour access to the entire History Cooperative web site. You will have full access to current issues of the Journal of American History (86.1-present). Note: the Research Pass does not provide access to JSTOR's holdings of the Journal of American History.
Instititutions can:: • Subscribe to this journal and receive print and electronic issues.
• Activate your existing subscription so that we recognize your IP number ranges.

| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

Reproductive Health, Reproductive Rights: Reformers and the Politics of Maternal Welfare, 1917–1940. By Robyn L. Rosen. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2003. xviii, 196 pp. $42.95, ISBN 0-8142-0920-3.)
In this very enlightening book, Robyn L. Rosen examines her subject through the work of four different women: Elizabeth Lowell Putnam, Ethel Sturges Dummer, Mary Ware Dennett, and Blanche Ames. Through these biographies Rosen looks carefully at the struggle for women's reproductive rights during the interwar period and the way that struggle related to larger social and political notions of maternal welfare. Those years were very important ones to birth control's entrance into a mainstream debate, where the idea of women as mothers would play a key role in gaining acceptance of contraceptive use.	1
When Margaret Sanger brought discussions of contraception to the public just before World War I, she did so in a way that linked socialist politics and radical sexuality, neither of which would convince legislators to remove contraceptives from the list of obscene materials banned under the Comstock Law of 1873. She eventually found herself reshaping arguments to gain support. Sanger was a master at communication, which earned her significant attention then and subsequent attention by historians.	. . .

There are about 356 more words in this article. Please log in (or, if you are not yet an authorized user, please go to the User Setup page) to gain full access rights. Or if you're already logged in register your subscription.