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From thriving black market to big business, the commercialization of birth control in the United StatesIn 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.
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Devices and Desires, Andrea Tonello
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- Année de publication
- 2002
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- Titre
- Devices and Desires
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Andrea Tonello
- Éditeur
- Macmillan
- Publié
- 2002
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN10
- 0809038161
- ISBN13
- 9780809038169
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Thème historique, Histoire, Santé & Médecine, Médecine, Santé, Féminisme, Sexualité et intimité, Histoire des États-Unis
- Évaluation
- 3,95 sur 5
- Description
- From thriving black market to big business, the commercialization of birth control in the United StatesIn 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.