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Abortion and Contraception

Abortion politics in the United States and Canada : Studies in public opinion

edited by Marthe A. Chandler and Ted G. Jelen, 1994.

Canada's first birth control clinic: The birth control society of Hamilton, 1931-1940

by Catherine Annau, 1992.

Choice, interrupted: Travel and inequality of access to abortion services since the 1960s

by Christabelle Sethna, Beth Palmer, Katrina Ackerman, and Nancy Janovicek, 2013.

Clandestine operations : The Vancouver Women`s Caucus, the abortion caravan, and the RCMP

by Christabelle Sethna and Steve Hewitt, 2009.

For the public good : a history of the birth control clinic and the Planned Parenthood Society of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

by Thomas Melville Bailey, 1974.

"He is still unwanted" : Women's assertions of authority over abortion in letters to the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada

by Shannon Stettner, 2012.

Left popular politics in Canadian feminist abortion organizing, 1982-1991

by Lorna Weir, 1994.

Responsible parenthood : Decriminalizing contraception in Canada

by Brenda Margaret Appleby, 1999.

The bedroom and the state : the changing practices and politics of contraception and abortion in Canada, 1880-1980

by Angus McLaren and Arlene Tigar McLaren, 1997.

The politics of abortion

by Janine Brodie, Shelley A.M. Gavigan, and Jane Jenson, 1992.

Eugenics and Coerced Sterilization

An act of genocide: Eugenics, Indian policy, and the sterilization of Aboriginal women in Canada

by Karen Stote, 2012.

Eugenics in Ontario: Reconsidering Catholicism, the culture of government, and postwar eugenics in the Canadian historiography

by Sean Patrick Springer, 2012.

Facing eugenics : reproduction, sterilization, and the politics of choice

by Erika Dyck, 2013

From the case files: Reconstructing a history of involuntary sterilisation

by Deborah C. Park and John P. Radford, 1998.

Living archives on eugenics in western Canada

by Community University Research Alliance.

More than just boots! The eugenic and commercial concerns behind A. R. Kaufman's birth controlling activities

by Linda Revie, 2006.

Sterilization in Alberta, 1928 to 1972: gender matters

by Jana Grekul, 2008.

Sterilizing the “Feeble-minded”: Eugenics in Alberta, Canada, 1929–1972

by Jana Grekul, Arvey Krahn, and Dave Odynak, 2004.

The creation of a haven for ‘human thoroughbreds’: The sterilization of the feeble‐minded and the mentally ill in British Columbia

by Angus McLaren, 1986.

The future of the race : a series of radio addresses, sponsored by the Eugenics Society of Canada, 1937.

Acknowledgements

The resources used in this exhibit were from a variety of University of Toronto libraries. We would like to thank the following libraries for their contributions:

Government Publications, Robarts Library, 4th floor
Robarts Library stacks
Women’s Education Resource Collection (WERC), OISE Library
Media Commons, Robarts Library, 3rd floor
Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
Bora Laskin Law Library
University of Toronto at Scarborough Library