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The Birth of the Pill
How Four Pioneers Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
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In the winter of 1950, Margaret Sanger, then seventy-one, and who had campaigned for women's right to control their own fertility for five decades, arrived at a Park Avenue apartment building. She had come to meet a visionary scientist with a dubious reputation more than twenty years her junior. His name was Gregory Pincus.

In The Birth of the Pill, Jonathan Eig tells the extraordinary story of how, prompted by Sanger, and then funded by the wealthy widow and philanthropist Katharine McCormick, Pincus invented a drug that would stop women ovulating. With the support of John Rock, a charismatic and, crucially, Catholic doctor from Boston, who battled his own church in the effort to win public approval for the controversial new drug, he succeeded. Together, these four determined men and women changed the world.Spanning the years from Sanger's heady Greenwich Village days in the early twentieth century to trial tests in Puerto Rico in the 1950s to the cusp of the sexual revolution in the 1960s, this is a grand story of radical feminism, scientific ingenuity, establishment opposition, and, ultimately, a sea change in social attitudes. Brilliantly researched and vividly written, The Birth of the Pill is a gripping account of a remarkable cultural, social and scientific journey


Contents:

Chapter - 1: A Winter Night
Chapter - 2: A Short History of Sex
Chapter - 3: Spontaneous Ovulations
Chapter - 4: A Go-To-Hell Look
Chapter - 5: Lover and Fighter
Chapter - 6: Rabbit Tests
Chapter - 7: 'I'm A Sexologist'
Chapter - 8: The Socialite and the Sex Maniac
Chapter - 9: A Shotgun Question
Chapter - 10: Rock's Rebound
Chapter - 11: What Makes a Rooster Crow?
Chapter - 12: A Test in Disguise
Chapter - 12: Cabeza de Negro
Chapter - 14: The Road to Shrewsbury
Chapter - 15: 'Weary and Depressed'
Chapter - 16: The Trouble with Women
Chapter - 17: A San Juan Weekend
Chapter - 18: The Women of the Asylum
Chapter - 19: John Rock's Hard Place
Chapter - 20: As Easy as Aspirin
Chapter - 21: A Deadline to Meet
Chapter - 22: 'The Miracle Tablet Maybe'
Chapter - 23: Hope to the Hopeless
Chapter - 24: Trials
Chapter - 25: 'Papa Pincus's Pink Pills for Planned Parenthood'
Chapter - 26: Jack Searle's Big Bet
Chapter - 27: The Birth of the Pill
Chapter - 28: 'Believed to Have Magical Powers'
Chapter - 29: The Double Effect
Chapter - 30: La Senora de las Pastillas
Chapter - 31: An Unlikely Pitch Man
Chapter - 32: 'A Whole New Bag of Beans'
Chapter - 33: The Climax

Section - i: Epilogue
Acknowledgements - ii: Acknowledgements
Section - iii: Notes
Section - iv: Selected Bibliography
Index - v: Index


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ISBN-13: 9780230770140
Publisher: Macmillan
Publication date: February, 2015
Pages: 400
Dimensions: 153.00 x 234.00 x 33.00
Weight: 674g
Availability: Not available (reason unspecified)
Subcategories: Public Health

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