Fertile expectations

Margaret Andersen is an Professor of History at the University of Tennessee

• Introduction1: Influencing Population trends: motherhood and demographic thinking2: Infertility in a pronatalist age: medical research and advice in the interwar period 3: Recovering Births for France: Infertility as a Pronatalist Issue 4: Adoption law reform: building families and promoting population growth 5: Gender, Nation, and the Family in the Post-War Era: Artificial Insemination in Question 6: Population growth with family planning? Demographic policy in the baby boom era Epilogue and conclusion

'This book explores where and how infertility featured in mid-twentieth-century pronatalist thought and action. In combining histories of medicine, women and gender, as well as public administration, this study will be of interest to specialists in these areas. It pursues the usually neglected question of how far these actors paid attention to the fact that not all French men and women were childless voluntarily.'Joan Tumblety, European History Quarterly, Vol. 56, No. 1.