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Devices and Desires

A History of Contraceptives in America

Devices and Desires( )
Author: Tone, Andrea
ISBN:978-0-8090-3816-9
Publication Date:May 2002
Publisher:Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Imprint:Hill & Wang
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $20.00
Book Description:

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...
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Book Details
Pages:384
Detailed Subjects: Health & Fitness / Sexuality
Social Science / Abortion & Birth Control
Social Science / Sociology / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.5 x 8.5 x 0.86 Inches
Book Weight:1.08 Pounds
Author Biography
Tone, Andrea (Author)
Andrea Tone, an associate professor of history at the Georgia Institute of Technology, is the author of "The Business of Benevolence" & the editor of "Controlling Reproduction: An American History". She lives in Decatur, Georgia.

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