Devices and Desires - Couverture souple

Tone, Andrea

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0809038161 ISBN 13 : 9780809038169

Editeur : Hill and Wang, 2002

Synopsis

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 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Andrea Tone, an associate professor of history at the Georgia Institute of Technology, is the author of The Business of Benevolence and the editor of Controlling Reproduction: An American History. She lives in Decatur, Georgia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hill and Wang
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0809038161
• ISBN 13: 9780809038169
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 386
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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