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6%OFFJonathan Eig - The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Revinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution - 9780393351897 - V9780393351897
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The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Revinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution

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Description for The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Revinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: PD. Dimension: 210 x 142. Weight in Grams: 392.

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 ... Read more

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.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
WW Norton
Language
English
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393351897
SKU
V9780393351897
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Jonathan Eig
Jonathan Eig, a former reporter at the Wall Street Journal, is the author of King, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, The Birth of the Pill, Luckiest Man, Opening Day, and Get Capone. He lives in Chicago with his wife and children.

Reviews for The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Revinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
"Eig’s nimbly paced cultural history shows that the pill’s genesis was anything but simple."
New York Times (Editors' Choice) "[Eig] brings a lively, jocular approach to the story, casting an unlikely four-part ensemble comedy starring Sanger; the iconoclastic lead scientist, Gregory Goodwin Pincus; the Roman Catholic physician John Rock; and the supplier of cash behind it all, Katharine McCormick." ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Revinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution


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