Family Values: Divorce, Working Women, and Reproductive Rights in Twentieth-Century America

Contents\nIntroduction: family values in a changing society\n1 “Race suicide or remedy?” The debates on divorce in the Progressive Era, 1890–1920\n2 “Scientific motherhood, reproductive morality and fitter families”: debates on eugenic family concepts and the government’s right to intervene in the 1920s and 1930s\n3 “Working women, domesticity, and the expert”: public debates and expert discourses on women’s employment and motherhood, 1940–1970\n4 “Black family pathologies”: the limits of the white middle-class family ideal and the debate on the structure and values of the African American family in the 1960s\n5 “From reproductive choice to reproductive rights”: abortion, reproduction, and the role of women in family and society in the 1970s and 1980s\n6 “Culture wars?” Debates on the American family in the 1980s\nConclusion: Value of the family—continuity and change in the family ideal in the twentieth-century United States\nAcknowledgments\nAbbreviations\nList of figures\nList of tables\nBibliography\nPerson Index\nSubject Index