Devices and Desires (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Andrea Tone
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: History and medicine
- Time of Work: The 1870’s to the 1970’s
- Setting: The United States
- Principal Characters: Anthony Comstock, Margaret Sanger, Katharine Dexter McCormick, Gregory Pincus, John Rock
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Health and medicine
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Law or legislation, Women’s issues, Medicine, Birth control
- Locales: United States
Research for Andrea Tone’s Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America was funded by the Georgia Tech Foundation, Simon Fraser University, the Rockefeller Archive Center, the Huntington Library, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, which granted Tone a Fellowship for University Teachers in 1998. Tone’s exhaustive research includes interviews with numerous physicians, reviews of postal records, Federal Trade Commission transcripts, military records, and reports about early birth control firms. Her list of resources consulted for the book includes the...
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