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In creating the Pill, the two elderly activists ushered in what one historian called "the contraceptive mentality" — the belief in the right of a woman to control her own fertility. After a ...
- How The Pill Works
The pill uses the body's negative feedback system to prevent...
- The Pill and the Sexual Revolution
At the core of the sexual revolution was the concept --...
- How The Pill Works
May 12, 2010 · 1. The pill didn't really kick-start the sexual revolution. Conventional wisdom has long dictated that as soon as the pill came along, women cast off social restrictions and started having casual ...
The pill has had a dramatic impact on social life in the US, affecting women's health, fertility trends, laws and policies, religion, interpersonal relations, family roles, women's careers, gender relations, and premarital sexual practices. The emergence of the women's rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s was significantly related to the ...
- Louise Tyrer
- 1999
Jan 1, 1999 · Introduction of the birth control pill in the United States in 1960 marked the end of a relatively short period of time (<10 years) to intentionally produce an oral contraceptive, and the beginning of a relatively long period of controversy surrounding the use of the pill. Availability of the pill had an impact on various aspects of social life ...
- Louise Tyrer
- 1999
At the core of the sexual revolution was the concept -- radical at the time -- that women, just like men, enjoyed sex and had sexual needs. Feminists asserted that single women had the same sexual ...
- American Experience
Taking one pill daily was almost 100 percent effective in preventing pregnancy. It was the first highly effective birth control that women could use independently. This new independence led to deep divisions and debates. Many Americans who generally supported birth control hated the pill. They argued that it would encourage women to have sex ...
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Just five years after the Pill's FDA approval, more than 6.5 million American woman are taking oral contraceptives, making the Pill the most popular form of birth control in the U.S. Searle still ...