Barren in the Promised Land: Childless Americans and the Pursuit of Happiness by Elaine Tyler May

Barren in the Promised Land: Childless Americans and the Pursuit of Happiness

Elaine Tyler May

336 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Chronicling astonishing shifts in public attitudes toward reproduction, from the association of barrenness with sin in colonial times, to the creation of laws for compulsory sterilization in the early twentieth century, from the baby craze of the ...

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