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Devices and desires : a history of contraceptives in America / Andrea Tone.
- Title
- Devices and desires : a history of contraceptives in America / Andrea Tone.
- Author
- Tone, Andrea, 1964-
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 366 p. : ill., ports.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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 fascinating individuals who make up the history of contraceptives in America. Scholars of birth control typically frame this history as one of physicians, lawyers, and political activists.
- But in Devices and Desires, Andrea Tone breaks new ground by showing what it was really like to produce, buy, and use contraceptives during a century of profound social and technological change."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- ISBN
- 080903817X (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 00050547
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries