America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation
Book description:
"In 1960, the FDA approved the oral contraceptive that would come to be known as "the pill." Within a few years, millions of women were using it. At a time when the population was surging, many believed that the drug would help eradicate poverty around the globe, ensure happy and stable marriages, and liberate women. America and the Pill reveals the ways in which the pill did and did not fulfill these utopian dreams, while also chronicling the stories of the creators, testers, and users who ultimately made the pill their own."
Why this is progressive/liberal: It may be impossible to exaggerate the impact the Pill had on the women's liberation movement. This book puts the arrival of this easy and efficient contraceptive into historical context. Arriving as it did, as the baby boom demographic was about to enter college, the Pill influenced second wave Feminism and the sexual revolution of the 1960s.
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