Microform Collection

Title: The Malthusian: organ of the Malthusian League
Call Number: MICROFILM 5863
Continued by: New generation (London, England)
Publisher: [London]: The League, 1879-1921.
Description: 4 Microfilm ; 35 mm.

Subject(s):

Birth control--Periodicals.

Publication type: Periodicals
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Time period: 1879-1921

Notes: The institutions of marriage and family were threatened by the new methods of birth control which became available in the late 19th century. The first organization in England dedicated to advocating the practice of birth control was the Malthusian League. The Malthusian documents the questions of population, wage issues, poverty, prostitution. It also provides information on birth control, marriage, the family, poverty, prostitution, racial theories, and the whole area of women and social change.

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