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Neo-Malthusianism: Birth Control in the Netherlands
| Website Date: | 2011-07-15 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2011-04-12 |
| Announcement ID: |
184544 |
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This is a new digital exhibition on the introduction of birth control in the Netherlands between 1870 and 1940, and the accompanying debate. The leading part is taken by the Nieuw-Malthusiaanse Bond ("Neo-Malthusianism League"), whose archives are housed in the IISG. How this Dutch organization for birth control came by its name is explained in the first section of the exhibition. In nine sections it highlights Dutch pioneers of birth control, among them Aletta Jacobs and Johannes Rutgers. The opinions of both advocates and opponents of birth control and contraception are presented in digitized book chapters, newspapers, letters, pamphlets, posters, newspaper cuttings, and booklets. The exhibition features a collection of information booklets dating from around 1900, describing and depicting condoms, pessaries, and other contraceptives. These and other booklets, some of which are very rare and fragile, are fully digitized and can be viewed online. The introductory texts are in Dutch and English. The address of the website is:
http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions/neomalthusianism/
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