birth controlbody politicsfeminismsgenderhistoryBirth control is neither modern nor medical, and for most of its long history was uncontroversial. As far back in history as evidence is available, every society tried to practice some form of reproduction control. They were not always successful, of...
DR. MARIE STOPES has written a very good book on birth control. Not the least of its merits is a simple directness which marks sincerity and contrasts pleasantly with the sentimental sloppiness which nauseates in many publications on the same subject. She relies on evidence, and marshals it ...
In the middle of the 20th century, an age-old quest for safe and effective oral contraception was realized. The woman who made that happen was Margaret Sanger (1879–1966), the founder of the American Birth Control League, the forerunner of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (Chesler, 1...
This paper draws on the history of the birth control pill in Sri Lanka to illustrate how the broader global discourse of population control was played out in the Sri Lankan national context. Utilising a cross reading of research reports and correspondence between local and international family plann...
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The History and Future of Birth Control (Image credit: stock.xchng) Ever since humans first figured out that Tab A + Slot B = Baby, we've been hard at work attempting to defy that equation — and there are still more innovations to come. From crocodile dung to the dry orgasm pill, ...
famous feminist and Planned Parenthood founder, explained to her as “the greatest need of the whole [Planned Parenthood] movement”—“a simple, cheap, contraceptive.” Feminists had dreamed of a birth control pill a woman could take without a man’s knowledge, and Rock and Pincus were their...
My memory is that I felt Todd Rundgren was one of the cool people who were a far smaller part of our audience or our speakers than these people who seemed like they were straight out of the Revenge of the Nerds movies. SXSWi Uncensored: The Book For more on Austin’s tech roots–and...
Tait’s critique of Tyndall’s pamphlet Principal Forbes and his Biographers led to bitter rivalries in the correspondence columns; these resurfaced with a review of Tyndall’s book The Forms of Water in Clouds and Rivers, Ice, and Glaciers, and spilled over into other journals, newspapers and...
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann David Grann’s newest page-turner,The Wager, has much in common with his 2017 book,Killers of the Flower Moon, which was recentlyadapted for the screenby Martin Scorsese. Both tell the tale of a once-infamous, now more ...