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The birth of the pill: how four crusaders reinvented sex and launched a revolution
The birth of the pill: how four crusaders reinvented sex and launched a revolution
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Eig, Jonathan
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publication Date
2014.
Language
English
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A winter night
A short history of sex
Spontaneous ovulations
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 señora de las pastillas
An unlikely pitch man
"A whole new bag of beans"
The climax.
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Contraception
Contraception -- history
History
McCormick, Katherine Dexter
McCormick, Katherine Dexter, 1876-1967
Oral contraceptives
Oral contraceptives -- History
Pincus, Gregory
Pincus, Gregory, 1903-1967
Rock, John
Rock, John, 1890-1984
Sanger, Margaret
Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966
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9780393073720
9780393351897
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