What Were the Characteristics of the Progressive Era's Birth-Control Movement

question 96

Multiple Choice

What were the characteristics of the Progressive era's birth-control movement?

• A) Public lectures on sexual freedom and contraception by activists such as Emma Goldman.
• B) Little beyond reassuring women they had the right to refuse their husband's sexual advances.
• C) The distribution of birth-control devices by Margaret Sanger.
• D) A belief in a woman's right to an active sexual life, but only in conjunction with childbearing.
• E) A and C

Recognize the significance of introspection and its role in the initial study of psychology.

Appreciate the intellectual and disciplinary origins of psychology.

Understand the establishment of psychology as an independent discipline.

Acknowledge the role of the American Psychological Association in psychology.

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