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The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
Author
Jonathan Eig
Content
x + 388 + [8 photo] pp., ill., bibl., index
Publication date
2014
Publisher
New York: W. W. Norton
Description
Focuses on Katharine McCormick, Gregory Pincus, John Rock, and Margaret Sanger.
Main subject
Feminism and Women's Rights
Health and Medicine
Sexuality
ISBN
9780393073720 (cloth); 9780393351897 (pap.); 9780393245943 (ebook)
Citation
Eig, Jonathan.
The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution.
New York: W. W. Norton, 2014. Sylvia. Accessed November 7, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL4548.
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11-06-2025
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Feminism and Women's Rights
Health and Medicine
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Birth Control
Oral Contraceptives
Human Rights
Reproductive Rights
McCormick, Katharine Dexter (1875–1967)
Pincus, Gregory (1903–67)
Rock, John (1890–1984)
Sanger, Margaret (1879–1966)
United States
20th Century