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The Birth of the Pill

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

The Birth of the Pill

By Jonathan Eig

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About the book

In the winter of 1950, Margaret Sanger, then seventy-one, and who had campaigned for women's right to control their own fertility for five decades, arrived at a Park Avenue apartment building. She had come to meet a visionary scientist with a dubious reputation more than twenty years her junior. His name was Gregory Pincus. In The Birth of the Pill, Jonathan Eig tells the extraordinary story of how, prompted by Sanger, and then funded by the wealthy widow and philanthropist Katharine McCormick, ...Show more

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9781447234814

Publisher

Pan Macmillan

Published year

2016

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The Birth of the Pill

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Paperback

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