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Author Eig, Jonathan.

Title The birth of the pill : how four crusaders reinvented sex and launched a revolution / Jonathan Eig.

Publication Info. New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2014.

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  618.18 EIG    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  618.1822 EIG    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  618.1822 EIG    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Wickham Branch Library - Adult Department  618.18 EIG    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  618.1822 EIG    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  613.94 EIG    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  618.1 EIG    Check Shelf
 Granby, F.H. Cossitt Branch - Adult  618.1 EIG    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  618.1822 EIG    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  618.18 EI41    Check Shelf

Edition First edition
Description x, 388 pages, [8] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [331]-367) and index.
Contents A winter night -- A short history of sex -- Spontaneous ovlulatoins -- A go-to-hell look -- Lover and fighter -- Rabbit tests -- "I'm a sexologist" -- The socialite and the sex maniac -- A shotgun question -- Rock's rebound -- What makes a rooster crow? -- A test in disguise -- Cabeza de negro -- The road to shrewsbury -- "Weary & depressed" -- The trouble with women -- A San Juan weekend -- The women of the asylum -- John Rock's hard place -- As easy as aspirin -- A deadline to meet -- "The miracle tablet maybe" -- Hope to the hopeless -- Trials -- "Papa Pincus's pink pills for planned parenthood" -- Jack Searle's big bet -- The birth of the pill -- "Believed to have magical powers" -- The double effect -- La seƱora de las pastillas -- An unlikely pitch man -- "A whole new bag of beans" -- The climax -- Epilogue.
Summary Documents the pivotal contributions of a feminist birth-control campaigner, a wealthy schizophrenic's wife, a disgraced Harvard scientist, and a boundary-breaking Catholic doctor in the development of the birth-control pill.
Subject Oral contraceptives -- History.
McCormick, Katharine Dexter, 1875-1967.
Pincus, Gregory, 1903-1967.
Rock, John, 1890-1984.
Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966.
Contraception -- history.
ISBN 9780393073720 (hardcover)
0393073726 (hardcover)
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