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Article: Honoring the forgotten history of birth control.(FEMINIST VISIONS)(The Defenders: A History of the Birth Control Movement in Wisconsin)(Video recording review)
- Article from:
- Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources
- Article date:
- September 22, 2006
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THE DEFENDERS: A HISTORY OF THE BIRTH CONTROL MOVEMENT IN WISCONSIN. 93 mins. Directed by Emily Rumsey & Dawnee Dodson. Executive Producer: Deborah Hobbins. Trilobyte Pictures Productions (http://trilobytepictures.com/) for Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, 2006. DVD purchase: $25.00.
Women may no longer strap weasel testicles to their thighs to prevent pregnancy, as The Defenders notes they resorted to in the Middle Ages, but their access to full reproductive health services has not come easily and continues to require vigorous defending. That is the theme of this new DVD commissioned by Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin in commemoration of the seventieth ...