Birth Control: A Reference Handbook provides a breadth and depth of discussion about birth control throughout human history and in the modern day, with attention paid to the controversies related to it.

• Provides readers with a history of birth control and the methods that have been developed to prevent pregnancy
• Discusses how politics have had an impact on birth control and vice versa
• Supplies abundant resources for further research on the topic by readers of all ages
• Rounds out the author's expertise with perspective essays, giving readers a diversity of viewpoints on the topic