Fertility and Contraception during the Demographic Transition: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches
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Demographic, cultural, and oral-history approaches to the study of falling fertility in nineteenth-and twentieth-century France, Canada, Britain, Holland, Norway, and Finland confirm the importance of the persistent usage of “traditional” methods of birth control—such as coitus interruptus, abortion, and forms of periodic abstinence—throughout the period when fertility fell, though fertility fell in each case at a different point in time. These studies also use qualitative evidence that provides insight into the reasons for contraceptive preference, thereby combining the history of changing sexualities with the analysis of demographic change.
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Innovation, improvement and proliferation of modern contraceptive techniques played an important role in the fertility decline.
“Although traditional birth control methods had been extensively used by the general public during the demographic transition (Szreter, Nye & van Poppel: 2003), innovation, improvement and proliferation of modern contraceptive techniques played an important role in the fertility decline.”
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- Authors
- Szreter, S., Nye, R. A., & Poppel, F. V.
- Affiliations
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- Oregon State University (US)
- Senior Research Officer, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demo-graphic Institute (NIDI)
- ORCID
- Szreter, Simon
- Venue
- The Journal of Interdisciplinary History
- Publisher
- MIT Press - Journals
- Published
- 2003-10
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 141-154
- ISSN
- 0022-1953 (ISSN-L)
- 1530-9169
- OpenAlex
- W1978725581
- Cited by
- 32
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2023: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 14 · 2017: 2 · 2014: 1 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 20.82
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (publishedVersion)
- Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Reproductive Health and Contraception
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Historical Economic and Social Studies
- Keywords
- fertility decline, contraception, demographic transition, coitus interruptus, abortion, natural family planning, contraceptive preferences, sexuality, history of contraception, 19th century, 20th century, Western Europe
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