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Devices and desires : a history of contraceptives in America / Andrea Tone

Catalog Data

Author:
Tone, Andrea 1964-  Search this
Physical description:
xvi---i, 366 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
2001
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Comstockery : 1873 ; Limits of the law ; Contraceptive entrepreneurs ; Black-market birth control -- From smut to science : Salute to prophylaxis ; Medical fit ; Feminine hygiene ; Condom kings -- Medicalization of contraceptives : Developing the pill ; Pill in practice ; Searching for something better ; Epilogue : the contraceptive conundrum
Topic:
Birth control--History  Search this
Contraceptives--History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_693565