Why did americans continue to purchase birth control

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REQUIRED WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT -

For the paper assignment, you will read and write about ONE of the following articles found in the Delta College library databases and answer the questions for the article you have chosen:

1. Genna Rae McNeil, "The Body, Sexuality, and Self-Defense in State v. Joan Little, 1974-1975", The Journal of African American History, Vol. 93, No. 2, Discourses on Race, Sex and African American Citizenship (Spring, 2008), pp. 235-261

Address the following question in your paper: According to the article, what assumptions about sex and race did Joan Little have to overcome in order to win her legal case in 1975? Why was it significant that Little testified on her own behalf at the trial?

Warning: The McNeil article is about a sexual assault case.

2. Elizabeth R. Escobedo, "The Pachuca Panic: Sexual and Cultural Battlegrounds in World War II Los Angeles", The Western Historical Quarterly, Vol. 38, No. 2 (Summer, 2007), pp. 133-156

Address the following question in your paper: According to the article, who were "pachucas" in the context of World War II-era Los Angeles and why did they "panic" both Anglo and Mexican immigrant communities?

3. Andrea Tone, "Black Market Birth Control: Contraceptive Entrepreneurship and Criminality in the Gilded Age", The Journal of American History, Vol. 87, No. 2 (Sep., 2000), pp. 435-459

Address the following question in your paper: According to the article, why did Americans continue to purchase and produce birth control after it became illegal and how did they get away with it?

At the end of the paper, after the Works Cited Page, you will also include a short paragraph on your writing. In this paragraph, comment on what you think you did well with your writing and writing skills you would like to improve. This is about your writing process - not whether you liked the article or not! Twenty point deductions from papers that do not have this reflection paragraph.

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