Description: Title: The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution Author: Eig, Jonathan Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Binding: Paperback Pages: 416 Dimensions: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.10d Product Weight: 0.75 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9780393351897 We know it simply as "the pill," yet its genesis was anything but simple. Jonathan Eig's masterful narrative revolves around four principal characters: the fiery feminist Margaret Sanger, who was a champion of birth control in her campaign for the rights of women but neglected her own children in pursuit of free love; the beautiful Katharine McCormick, who owed her fortune to her wealthy husband, the son of the founder of International Harvester and a schizophrenic; the visionary scientist Gregory Pincus, who was dismissed by Harvard in the 1930s as a result of his experimentation with in vitro fertilization but who, after he was approached by Sanger and McCormick, grew obsessed with the idea of inventing a drug that could stop ovulation; and the telegenic John Rock, a Catholic doctor from Boston who battled his own church to become an enormously effective advocate in the effort to win public approval for the drug that would be marketed by Searle as Enovid.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 feminist politics, scientific ingenuity, establishment opposition, and, ultimately, a sea change in social attitudes. Brilliantly researched and briskly written, The Birth of the Pill is gripping social, cultural, and scientific history. Ships Fast From The USA! Authorized Dealer
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Book Title: Birth of the Pill : How Four Crusaders Revinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
Number of Pages: 416 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
Publication Year: 2015
Topic: Reproductive Medicine & Technology, Medical, Social Activists, History, Science & Technology
Item Height: 1 in
Genre: Science, Biography & Autobiography, Medical
Item Weight: 12.4 Oz
Item Length: 8.2 in
Author: Jonathan Eig
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
