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Devices and Desires

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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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Rok vydania
2002
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Titul
Devices and Desires
Jazyk
anglicky
Vydavateľ
Macmillan
Rok vydania
2002
Väzba
mäkká
Počet strán
384
ISBN10
0809038161
ISBN13
9780809038169
Série
Hodnotenie
3,95 z 5
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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.