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Devices and Desires

Devices and Desires
Author: Andrea Tone
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 080903817X

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 fascinating individuals who make up the history of contraceptives in America. Download Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Scholars of birth control typically frame this history as one of physicians, lawyers, and political activists. But in Devices and Desires, Andrea Tone breaks new ground by showing what it was really like to produce, buy, and use contraceptives during a century of profound social and technological change. Tone begins with the passage of the 1873 Comstock Act, which criminalized th Search and find a lot of medical books in many category availabe for free download. Devices and Desires medical books pdf for free. Scholars of birth control typically frame this history as one of physicians, lawyers, and political activists Tone begins with the passage of the 1873 Comstock Act, which criminalized th



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