Jonathan Eig

The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

A Chicago Tribune "Best Books of 2014" • A Slate "Best Books 2014: Staff Picks" • A St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Best Books of 2014" The fascinating story of one of the most important scientific discoveries of the twentieth century.

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 who, after he was approached by Sanger and McCormick, grew obsessed with the idea of inventing a drug that could stop ovulation; and the telegenic John Rock, a Catholic doctor from Boston who battled his own church to become an enormously effective advocate in the effort to win public approval for the drug that would be marketed by Searle as Enovid.

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780393245943
• Artikelnr.: 59589065

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Eig, a former reporter at the Wall Street Journal, is the best-selling author of The Birth of the Pill, Luckiest Man, Opening Day, and Get Capone. He lives in Chicago with his wife and children.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter
1: A Winter Night Chapter
2: A Short History of Sex Chapter
3: Spontaneous Ovulations Chapter
4: A Go
To
Hell Look Chapter
5: Lover and Fighter Chapter
6: Rabbit Tests Chapter
7: 'I'm A Sexologist' Chapter
8: The Socialite and the Sex Maniac Chapter
9: A Shotgun Question Chapter
10: Rock's Rebound Chapter
11: What Makes a Rooster Crow? Chapter
12: A Test in Disguise Chapter
12: Cabeza de Negro Chapter
14: The Road to Shrewsbury Chapter
15: 'Weary and Depressed' Chapter
16: The Trouble with Women Chapter
17: A San Juan Weekend Chapter
18: The Women of the Asylum Chapter
19: John Rock's Hard Place Chapter
20: As Easy as Aspirin Chapter
21: A Deadline to Meet Chapter
22: 'The Miracle Tablet Maybe' Chapter
23: Hope to the Hopeless Chapter
24: Trials Chapter
25: 'Papa Pincus's Pink Pills for Planned Parenthood' Chapter
26: Jack Searle's Big Bet Chapter
27: The Birth of the Pill Chapter
28: 'Believed to Have Magical Powers' Chapter
29: The Double Effect Chapter
30: La Senora de las Pastillas Chapter
31: An Unlikely Pitch Man Chapter
32: 'A Whole New Bag of Beans' Chapter
33: The Climax Section
i: Epilogue Acknowledgements
ii: Acknowledgements Section
iii: Notes Section
iv: Selected Bibliography Index
v: Index