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When searching for materials related to the history of reproductive health in the Library of Congress Online Catalog and other repositories, modern terms like birth control and contraception may not yield relevant information across time periods. Searching for terms such as social hygiene, which was used to refer to sexual health in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, may yield relevant results. Women's issues is another possible search term, as it encompasses reproductive health as it relates to sex discrimination.
The list of potential search terms below is not comprehensive, but may yield relevant items from various time periods.
When searching in the Library of Congress Online Catalog, you can confine your search results to materials held by the Manuscript Division using "advanced search" (see screenshot below).
Authorized subject headings can be useful when searching in online catalogs. Subject headings include standardized topics, names, places, titles, and forms/genres of material. Select any of the subject headings below to perform searches in the Library's Online Catalog.
