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100			_aMay, Elaine Tyler
245		0	_aBarren in the promised land : childless Americans and the pursuit of happiness
260			_aCambridge, Mass.; London _bHarvard University Press _c1997
300			_a336p. : ill. ; 24cm.
520			_aChronicling the shifts in public attitudes towards reproduction, this book traces attitudes from colonial times to the 1990s. In colonial days barrenness was associated with sin, from here the progression is traced to the laws of compulsory sterilization in the early twentieth century, the baby craze of the 1950s, the rise in voluntary childlessness in the 1990s, and the increasing reliance on reproductive technologies. The author reveals the intersection between public life and the most private part of life - sexuality, procreation, and the family.
650			_aCHILDLESSNESS, history
650			_aINFERTILITY, history
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