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- Up one level
- Betting with lives: Clarence Gamble and the Pathfinder International
James A. Miller, Population Research Institute, July 1, 1996
- Our Bodies, Ourselves
Originated as the Boston Women's Health Collective, in 1970
- The Evolution of the Birth ControlHandbook: From Student Peer-EducationManual to Feminist Self-empowermentText, 1968-1975
Christabelle Sethna. Canadian Bulletin of Medical History (CBMH/BCHM). 2006;23(1):89-118
Abstract. Peer education has been recognized as a significant means of educating youths, especially about sexual health issues. Although considered a relatively recent development, there are, however, older examples of its existence. In Canada, the Birth Control Handbook (1968) stands out as a stellar example of one student peer-education manual. This article establishes the Handbook’s student peer-education roots. But it also charts the Handbook’s evolution from a revolutionary student peer-education manual to a key feminist self-empowerment text within the Quebec context between 1968 and 1975. Finally, this article includes the recollections of some of the key individuals involved in the development, production and distribution of the Handbook. In so doing, this article confirms the Handbook’s significance to both anglophone and francophone student and feminist politics as well as to women seeking information about birth control.
- The Margaret Sanger Papers Project
The Margaret Sanger Papers Project is a historical editing project sponsored by the Department of History at New York University. The Project was formed by Dr. Esther Katz in 1985 to locate, arrange, edit, research, and publish the papers of the noted birth control pioneer.