African American women were largely excluded from the idealized image of 1950s domesticity portrayed in popular culture. Most women who fantasize about going back to this decade are white ...

The Pill Welcomed By the late 1950s, both single and married American women were ready and waiting for a new and improved form of birth control. When the Pill was introduced, the social factors ...

Sterilization abuse of African American women by the white medical establishment reached its height in the 1950s and 1960s. Women who went into the hospital to deliver children often came out ...