Story: Contraception and sterilisation

More links and websites

• Dame Margaret Sparrow: contraception history

  Kim Hill talks to Dame Margaret Sparrow about the history of contraception in New Zealand, 6 June 2015.

• New Zealand Family Planning

  This organisation has provided family planning and contraceptive advice to New Zealanders since 1936.

More suggestions and sources

• Brookes, Barbara, Claire Gooder, and Nancy De Castro. 'Feminine as her handbag, modern as her hairstyle: the uptake of the contraceptive pill in New Zealand', New Zealand Journal of History Volume 47, no. 2 (2013): 208-231.

• Pool, Ian, Arunachalam Dharmalingam, and Janet Sceats. The New Zealand family from 1840: a demographic history. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2007.

• Pool, Ian, and others. New Zealand’s contraceptive revolutions. Hamilton: Population Studies Centre, University of Waikato, 1999.

• Rout, Ettie. Safe marriage: a return to sanity. London: Heinemann, 1922.

• Smyth, Helen. Rocking the cradle: contraception, sex and politics in New Zealand. Wellington: Steele Roberts, 2000.

• Tolerton, Jane. Ettie: a life of Ettie Rout. Auckland: Penguin, 1992.

• Tolerton, Jane. Ettie Rout: New Zealand's safer sex pioneer. Auckland: Penguin, 2015.