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Author Tone, Andrea, 1964-

Title Devices and desires : a history of contraceptives in America / Andrea Tone.

Publication Info. New York : Hill and Wang, 2001.

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 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  363.96 TONE    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xvii, 366 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Comstockery : 1873 ; Limits of the law ; Contraceptive entrepreneurs ; Black-market birth control -- From smut to science : Salute to prophylaxis ; Medical fit ; Feminine hygiene ; Condom kings -- Medicalization of contraceptives : Developing the pill ; Pill in practice ; Searching for something better ; Epilogue : the contraceptive conundrum.
Subject Birth control -- United States -- History.
Contraceptives -- United States -- History.
Contraception -- history -- United States.
Contraceptive Agents -- history -- United States.
ISBN 080903817X hardcover alkaline paper
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