Challenging choices : Canada's population control in the 1970s

Dyck, Erika, author.

Book 2020

"Between the decriminalization of contraception in 1969 and the introduction of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982, a decade regarded as a landmark era in the struggle for women's rights, public discourse about birth control and family planning was transformed. At the same time, a transnational conversation about the 'population bomb' that threatened global famine caused by overpopulation embraced birth control technologies for a differen...

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