Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America - Paperback
by Andrea Tone
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Hill & WangISBN-13:9780809038169ISBN-10:809038161UPC:9780809038169Book Category:History, MedicalBook Subcategory:United States, History, Social HistorySize:8.54 x 5.50 x 0.93 inchesWeight:1.1111Product ID:SCCDMV2VE4
From thriving black market to big business, the commercialization of birth control in the United States
In Devices and Desires, Andrea Tone breaks new ground by showing what it was really like to buy, produce, and use contraceptives during a century of profound social and technological change. A down-and-out sausage-casing worker by day who turned surplus animal intestines into a million-dollar condom enterprise at night; inventors who fashioned cervical caps out of watch springs; and a mother of six who kissed photographs of the inventor of the Pill -- these are just a few of the individuals who make up this riveting story.Languages:EnglishPublisher:Hill & WangISBN-13:9780809038169ISBN-10:809038161UPC:9780809038169Book Category:History, MedicalBook Subcategory:United States, History, Social HistorySize:8.54 x 5.50 x 0.93 inchesWeight:1.1111Product ID:SCCDMV2VE4
Andrea Tone, an associate professor of history at the Georgia Institute of Technology, is the author of The Business of Benevolence and the editor of Controlling Reproduction: An American History. She lives in Decatur, Georgia.
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