The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
by:
Jonathan Eig (author)
We know it simply as "the pill," yet its genesis was anything but simple. Jonathan Eig's masterful narrative revolves around four principal characters: the fiery feminist Margaret Sanger, who was a champion of birth control in her campaign for the rights of women but neglected her own children in...
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We know it simply as "the pill," yet its genesis was anything but simple. Jonathan Eig's masterful narrative revolves around four principal characters: the fiery feminist Margaret Sanger, who was a champion of birth control in her campaign for the rights of women but neglected her own children in pursuit of free love; the beautiful Katharine McCormick, who owed her fortune
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780393351897 (0393351890)
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
This book is yet another reminder of how good I have it. I had never considered what life was like for a woman before the Pill. While I had read books about women from before it's invention, such as The Second Sex and The Feminine Mystique (okay, before most middle class women could easily get it p...
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