... technology, and also the difference between the way that women view this technology and the way in which the researchers view the technology. Susan Davies "Contested Terrain: The Historical Struggle for Fertility Control" Davies offers a brief history of fertility control. She asserts that reproduction has also been an ideological battleground, where men and the state have battled for the control over women. Various reproductive controls have been used in different societies dating as far back as 1850B.C.E. Infanticide has also been used to control population growth. Davies cities an Ancient Roman law, which entitled the father to, decided whether or not to keep a child. This is a good example of men's right of control over population, and also demonstrates that this has sometimes been the case throughout history. Davies then turns her attention to the United States, and recent history of the right for fertility control. By the 1870s, there were ...

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