The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution (Hardcover) by Jonathan Eig

from LynnB

A very interesting read about the development of the birth control pill. The author focuses on four individuals who were instrumental in bringing the pill to the world: Margaret Sanger, a crusader and founder of Planned Parenthood; Gregory Pincus, a scientist who had many failures and setbacks in...

from AnaraGuard

Fascinating account of four individuals whose passions and talents combined to bring us what we now know as "The Pill". Excellent journalistic work by the author who pulled together existing works and original interviews with surviving principals and their families.

from kemilyh1988

Needed a bit more editing, but interesting none the less!

from barbharris1

This is an excellent biography of the birth control pill. It details how Margaret Sanger, Gregory Pincus, Katherine McCormick, and John Rock became involved with each other and developed one of the most famous inventions ever for women. It details how difficult it was to recruit women in the USA ...

from elenchus

Later generations would complain that the birth-control pill put the burden for contraception on women, but that's not the way these women saw it. Sanger and McCormick were born in the nineteenth century. To them, an oral contraceptive wasn't a burden for women. It was a tool. It was an opportuni...