The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution

by Jonathan Eig

Book Overview

We know it simply as "the pill," yet its genesis was anything but simple. Jonathan Eig's masterful narrative revolves around four principal characters: the fiery feminist Margaret Sanger, who was a champion of birth control in her campaign for the rights of women but neglected her own children in pursuit of free love; the beautiful Katharine McCormick, who owed her fortune to her wealthy husband, the son of the founder of International Harvester...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393073726
• ISBN13: 9780393073720
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.6"