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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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- Pubblicato
- 2002
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- Titolo
- Devices and Desires
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Andrea Tonello
- Editore
- Macmillan
- Pubblicato
- 2002
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 384
- ISBN10
- 0809038161
- ISBN13
- 9780809038169
- Serie
- Tag
- Saggistica, Tema stórico, Salute & Medicina, Storia, Medicina, Salute, Femminismo, Sessualità e intimità, Storia degli Stati Uniti
- Valutazione
- 3,95 su 5
- Descrizione
- 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.