Episode · Stuff You Should Know · 2024-12-07
Books mentioned on Selects: How The Pill Changed the World
When the birth control pill hit the market in 1960 it landed like a social bomb. Almost overnight, women gained the ability to separate sex from pregnancy and everything from feminism to patients’ rights centered on it.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The doctors' case against the pill
Discussed“And in 1969, a very famous book came out called The Doctor's Case Against the Pill written by a medical journalist named Barbara Seaman.”
Where to get it
