The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
Wednesday, December 6 | 4:30pm | Auditorium
Jonathan Eig Bestselling Author
We know it simply as “the pill,” yet its genesis was anything but simple. Spanning the years from Margaret Sanger’s heady Greenwich Village days in the early twentieth century to trial tests in Puerto Rico in the 1950s to the cusp of the sexual revolution in the 1960s, this is a grand story of radical feminist politics, scientific ingenuity, establishment opposition, and, ultimately, a sea change in social attitudes. Brilliantly researched and briskly written, “The Birth of the Pill” is gripping social, cultural, and scientific history.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jonathan Eig is the bestselling author of six books. He served as consulting producer for the PBS series “Muhammad Ali,” which was directed by Ken Burns. He’s appeared on the Today Show, NPR’s Fresh Air, and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. But his greatest claim to fame, according to his parents, is that his name once appeared in a Jeopardy question (which was solved correctly for $200).
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