TY - JOUR
AU - Sethna, Christabelle
AB - Metascience (2010) 19:149–152 DOI 10.1007/s11016-010-9353-z BOOK REVIEW Kate Fisher: Birth Control, Sex, and Marriage in Britain 1918–1960. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006, 304 pp, UK £78.00 Hbk Christabelle Sethna Published online: 5 March 2010 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 Demographers, social historians, family historians and feminist historians who read Kate Fisher’s Birth Control, Sex, and Marriage in Britain 1918–1960, are bound to rethink some foundational assumptions regarding the apparent revolution in contraceptive behaviour believed to have led to the fertility decline during the first half of the twentieth century. This decline was represented by dropping birth rates, indicating that the ‘‘traditional’’ family characterized by large numbers of children had given way to the ‘‘modern’’ family with merely two or three offspring. The reason for this shift is believed to be the calculated attempt of married couples, and wives in particular, to use technologically advanced female-dependent contraceptives such as the cervical cap and the diaphragm to plan the number of births and the spaces between them. Fisher suggests that while there is a good deal of macro-level evidence of the fertility decline, there is a paucity of micro-level information about individual decisions concerning contraception. Taking an oral history approach, Fisher 
TI - Pillow talk
JO - Metascience
DO - 10.1007/s11016-010-9353-z
DA - 2010-03-05
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/pillow-talk-VQbUn6ZZyQ
SP - 149
EP - 152
VL - 19
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
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