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Article: On the Pill: A Social History of Oral Contraceptives, 1950-1970.(Review)
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- The Journal of Sex Research
- Article date:
- November 1, 1999
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On the Pill: A Social History of Oral Contraceptives, 1950-1970. By Elizabeth Siegel Watkins. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998, 183 pages. Cloth, $25.95.
Watkins has written a low key, well documented account of the development of the oral contraceptive pill (the Pill). Her account is mostly impersonal and unexciting. For example, she mentions Gregory Pincus and his development of the Pill, but gives very little information on Pincus or any of the others involved in the battle. In a sense she is a facts, just-the-facts writer, and in the process of writing this way much of the drama is lost. There could be drama everywhere. For example, there ...
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