The Birth of the Pill: How Four Pioneers Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution by Jonathan Eig

The Birth of the Pill: How Four Pioneers Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution

Jonathan Eig

400 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history science challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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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 dubi...

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