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Pamela Klassen

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Contraception and the Coming of Secularism

When a woman slips a diaphragm snugly against her cervix or swallows a pill at the same time every morning so that she can engage in sexual intercourse with a man without becoming pregnant, what is the nature of her act, and who decides? In this chapter, I take up this question, using women’s art to propose considering contraception as part of religious freedom.


Klassen, Pamela. “Contraception and the Coming of Secularism: Reconsidering Reproductive Freedom as Religious Freedom.” In Secular Bodies, Affects and Emotions, edited by Monique Scheer, Nadia Fadil, and Schepelern Johansen, Birgitte, 17–30. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

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