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DESCRIPTION:In parts of Tokugawa Japan\, every other pregnancy ended in an 
 abortion or infanticide. Why did contraception not take their place before
  the twentieth century? Fabian Drixler (Yale University) explores this unu
 sual contraceptive practice in Tokugawa Japan.  \n\nRSVP \n\nTokugawa Japa
 n occupies an unusual place in the history of contraception. Pessaries are
  well documented among prostitutes\, and one Catholic record from the earl
 y seventeenth century features a line-up of Japanese converts confessing t
 heir use of contraceptive "devices". For the eighteenth and nineteenth cen
 turies\, however\, the evidence for the use of effective contraception by 
 the general population is elusive. This was not because married couples de
 sired large families. In parts of Tokugawa Japan\, every other pregnancy e
 nded in an abortion or infanticide. The practices were painful\, dangerous
 \, and vulnerable to moral attacks. Why did contraception not take their p
 lace before the twentieth century?\n\nBio\n\nFabian Drixler is Associate P
 rofessor of History at Yale University. He is author of Mabiki: Infanticid
 e and Population Growth in Eastern Japan\, 1660-1950 and currently works o
 n a new book that considers climate history from a Tokugawa perspective\, 
 Fractal Inequality: Japan in the Volcanic Winters of the Early Modern Worl
 d.
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LOCATION:Doheny Memorial Library (DML)\, DML 110C
SUMMARY:A Puzzle in the History of Japanese Contraception
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 anese_contraception
CATEGORIES:Lecture / Talk / Workshop
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