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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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- 2002
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- Título
- Devices and Desires
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Andrea Tonello
- Editorial
- Macmillan
- Publicado en
- 2002
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 384
- ISBN10
- 0809038161
- ISBN13
- 9780809038169
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- No ficción, Tema histórico, Historia, Salud & Medicina, Medicina, Salud, Feminismo, Sexualidad e intimidad, Historia de EE. UU.
- Calificación
- 3,95 de 5
- Descripción
- 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.