Contraception in Late Nineteenth-and Early Twentieth-Century Finland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3571752 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kari J Pitkänen (Professor of Demography, University of Helsinki), Kari Pitkänen (0000-0001-5687-3108, University of Helsinki, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 187-207 |
| Publication date | 2003-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/002219503322649471 |
| OpenAlex | W1985848573 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 1 |
Finland's fertility decline started in the 1880s among educated people, and in the 1910s among the masses. By the late 1930s, fertility had started to decline even at the most remote areas. Various documents, such as newspapers, magazines, pamphlets, and ethnographic collections, show that although mechanical, quasimodern contraceptives were widely sold and actively marketed in Finland by the early twentieth century, they were mostly used by the upper social segments of the population, and, to some extent, by the working classes of the urban and industrial centers. The primary methods of birth control used by the masses were withdrawal, often in connection with douching and abortion
Abortion · Archaeology · Birth control · Developed country · Ethnography · Family planning · Fertility · Geography · Historical demography · Newspaper · Political science · Population · Pregnancy · Research methodology · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Demography · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |