Birth Control News newspaper edited by Marie Stopes and associates in 1923 advanced public discussion of contraception, family planning, and reproductive reform in Britain during the early twentieth century birth control movement. The publication served as the official organ of the Society for Constructive Birth Control and Racial Progress, the.....
Pincus, Gregory. Scientific offprints documenting early experimental work in mammalian reproduction, embryology, and fertilization between 1926 and 1939. These publications record the formative research career of Gregory Pincus, the biologist whose later work in hormonal regulation of ovulation contributed directly to the development of the first oral contraceptive approved by.....
Coalition for Abortion Rights and Against Sterilization and anonymous author, two printed items dating from circa 1968 to 1978, document grassroots organizing around reproductive rights, anti sterilization advocacy, and radical feminist political strategy during the late twentieth century women’s liberation movement. The materials engage directly with the legal and social.....
Press photograph archive of Sherri Chessen Finkbine, early 1960s, documents a nationally significant abortion rights case that reshaped public discourse on reproductive autonomy in the United States prior to Roe v. Wade. Chessen, a television host publicly identified after seeking anonymity, became the center of national attention when she sought.....
Pincus, Gregory; Shapiro, H. Further Studies on the Parthenogenetic Activation of Rabbit Eggs, 1940, documents experimental reproductive biology at a formative stage in twentieth-century fertility research. The material addresses laboratory-based manipulation of mammalian eggs, contributing to early scientific understanding of fertilization, embryonic development, and cellular differentiation. Produced during a period.....
[Contraception] Sanger, Margaret. Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. Stated First Edition, 1938. The autobiography of a pioneering feminist, one of the earliest advocates for birth control and contraception, and a nurse who witnessed first-hand the devastating effects of unwanted pregnancy, Margaret Sanger. Blue boards, gilt.....
The Second Wave issues from 1972 through 1976 bring together feminist literary publishing, movement journalism, and political argument at a moment when U.S. feminist discourse surrounding rape, abortion, battered women, childcare, prison, and international women’s struggles were of urgent and expanding concern within the women’s liberation movement. The four issues.....
Sanger, Margaret. Literary Digest article and accompanying lantern slide, 1934, document public advocacy for birth control and Sanger’s role in legal and cultural efforts to expand access to contraception in the United States. The material captures a moment in which Sanger’s courtroom involvement and public narrative of the movement were.....
[Contraception] Margaret Sanger Typed letter signed by Margaret Sanger to Ruth Albert, dated March 9, 1931. 1 page, 8.5 x 11 in. Boldly signed “Margaret.” On letterhead for the Committee on Federal Legislation, an organization headed by Sanger, which advocated for federal regulation of birth control laws and regulations. Two.....
[Contraception] Sanger, M., & Russell, W. Debate on Birth Control. Little Blue Book. No. 208. Kansas: Haldemen-Julius Company,1921. First edition Grey-blue staple-bound wrappers with black text. 32mo. 63 pages. This work presents a debate between Margaret Sanger, a prominent advocate for birth control, and Winter Russell, who opposes it. The.....
[Contraception] Sanger, M., & Russell, W. Debate on Birth Control. Little Blue Book. No. 208. Kansas: Haldemen-Julius Company,1921. Grey-blue staple-bound wrappers with black text. 32mo. 63 pages. This work presents a debate between Margaret Sanger, a prominent advocate for birth control, and Winter Russell, who opposes it. The central topic.....
Pincus, G., & Shapiro, H., Further Studies on the Parthenogenetic Activation of Rabbit Eggs. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 163-165, March, 1940. Stamped en recto: "Presented by Dr. E.N. Harvey to the Zoology Department Library, University of North Carolina." Brown.....
Pincus, Gregory; Marker, Russell; Djerassi, Carl. Photo archive documenting the principal scientific figures whose work produced the oral contraceptive pill, covering research, chemical synthesis, and development from 1936 through the 1960 FDA approval of Enovid (the first oral contraceptive) and the expansion of its use in the 1960s. These portraits.....
Stopes, Marie Carmichael. On some aspects of contraception for Indian women. London: Published by the Mothers’ Clinic for Constructive Birth Control, 1952. Fourth edition. Original paper wrappers. 8 ½ x 5 ½ in. Staple bound. 6 pages. Collection contains her rare pamphlet "Aspects on Contraception for Indian Women" At the.....
"The Feminist Voice" Underground newspaper and Pin, 1972. V.1 #6. This Feminist newspaper discussed topics that were radical at the time, including abortion. Also comes with a Pro Abortion pinback: medium-large, black with white and orange letters "A woman's right to control her life; Repeal all abortion laws"...
[MATERNITY] BABCOCK, L.A. Office of the Silver Uterine Supporter Manufactory, [1872]. First edition pamphlet. 6" x 9". 4 pages. Over the course of the 19th century, the average American woman gave birth to six children, not including children lost to miscarriages and stillbirths. Contraception was not widely available, and pregnancy.....
Welton, Thurston Scott. The Modern Method of Birth Control. New York: Walter J. Black, Inc., 1935. First edition. Original cloth binding. No dust jacket. Octavo measuring 7.5" x 5". 169 pages, with 10 blank "Personal Diary" pages at the end. 78 pages of illustrated menstrual cycle charts. This work introduces.....
[Reproductive Health] [Women's Medicine] Students' Society of McGill University. "Birth Control Handbook." Montreal, 1970. Staplebound, with illustrated wrappers. 47 pages, 10" x 7." Front bears black-and-white photograph of a mother and her newborn. The Birth Control Handbook was published by McGill University as a response to an increase of backstreeet.....
Pincus, Gregory; Thimann, K. V.; Astwood, E. B., eds. The Hormones: Physiology, Chemistry, and Applications. Volume IV (1964) is a substantial scientific reference work produced during a period of rapid expansion in endocrinology and reproductive biology, supporting research into hormone science, biomedical experimentation, and pharmaceutical development in the mid-20th century.....
Pincus, G., & Shapiro, H., Further Studies on the Parthenogenetic Activation of Rabbit Eggs. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 163-165, March, 1940. Stamped en recto: "Presented by Dr. E.N. Harvey to the Zoology Department Library, University of North Carolina." Brown.....
Le Baron De Haller. Collection de Theses Medico-Chirurgicales, Sur les points les plus importans de la Chirurgie theorique & pratique: Tome Premier et Tome Second [Collection of Medico-Surgical Theses, On the most important points of Theoretical & Practical Surgery]. Paris: Chez Vincent, 1757. Duedecimo, calf binding, 414 pages. In french.....
[Sci-Fi/Specualtive Fiction][Feminism][Literature] Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid’s Tale. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. First edition. 311 pages. Original blue-gray cloth binding. In publisher’s dust jacket with mylar protective sleeve. A cornerstone of contemporary feminist dystopian literature, The Handmaid’s Tale presents a chilling vision of patriarchal theocracy in the Republic of Gilead, where.....
[CONTRACEPTION] So Close To Nature. [Chicago]: Mead Johnson & Company, 1966. Measures approximately 4.5" x 6.5" inches, original illustrated wrappers. 9 pages. Original 2 staples at spine. Instruction manual for taking Oracon, the first sequential oral contraceptive. Tellingly, the illustrations on the wrapper depict a bride in virginal white, and.....
Letter addressed to the Majority Leader of the Upper House of the New York State Legislature requesting a repeal of the law against contraceptive advertising. 1969. Printed on onionskin and signed in blue pen “MB” for Mary Booth. 1 page typewritten. The 1873 Comstock Act was a federal law designed.....
Mundé, Paul F., ed. The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children (August 1884) documents late nineteenth-century medical approaches to women’s health, reproduction, and social organization, including a significant clinical study of the Oneida Community. This issue supports research into the history of gynecology, medicalized interpretations of.....
