Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : a great thing for poor folks
  • Teaching birth control on Tobacco Road and in Mill Village Alley : the history of public birth control services
  • Nothing is removed except the possibility of parenthood : women and the politics of sterilization
  • I knew that it was a serious crime : negotiating abortion before Roe v. Wade
  • Taking foam powder and jellies to the natives : family planning goes abroad
  • Epilogue : from the footnotes to the headlines : sterilization apologies and their lessons.