Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America

From thriving black market to big business, the commercialization of birth control in the United States In...
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Author: Andrea Tone
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Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America by Tone, Andrea

Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America

$238.19

Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America

$238.19
Author: Andrea Tone
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.

Author: Andrea Tone
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Published: 05/01/2002
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 8.54h x 5.50w x 0.93d
ISBN: 9780809038169


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 07/07/2002 pg. 20

About the Author

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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