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Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780809038169)
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xFrom 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
ISBN-10: 0809038161
ISBN-13: 9780809038169
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2002
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 8.54h x 5.50w x 0.93d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times 07/07/2002 pg. 20
By Andrea Tone
xAndrea 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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