Keep Your Seats and Face Facts: Western Canadian Women's Discussion of Birth Control in the 1920s

摘要

Written evidence of 'ordinary' Canadians discussing in the first decades of this century the motives for and the means of limiting family size is rare. The letters on this subject that were printed in The Western Producer in 1927 are therefore of special interest. In placing them in context one is reminded that the struggle to control fertility - far from being a product of the post-World-War-II age - has a long history.