Read America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation Online
Authors: Elaine Tyler May
Tags: #History, #United States, #20th Century, #Modern, #Social History, #Social Science, #Abortion & Birth Control
women’s rights activism, 17–19 Sanger, William, 18
Satterthwaite, Adaline, 30–31
Schizophrenia, 21–22
Seaman, Barbara, 97, 117,
130–134
Seaman, Gideon, 130
Searle pharmaceuticals, 5, 32–33 Second Vatican Council,
123–126
Seeger, Pete, 124
Segal, Sheldon, 52, 55, 106, 109,
138
Senate hearings, 100, 132–133
Setlow, Larry, 114 Sex drive.
See
Libido
Sexual identity, 146–147, 163
Sexual revolution concerns over the pill
increasing promiscuity, 7–8 controversy over the existence
of, 82–83
impact on sexual behavior, values, and expectations, 149–150
Sexual revolution (
continued
) movie industry portrayal of,
89–91
origins and development of, 2–3, 74–79
pill use encouraging promiscuity, 152–153
Playboy
philosophy as vanguard of, 61
symbolism of the pill, 71–72 tensions and confusions for
young women, 84–89 Sexual satisfaction and pleasure
benefits and disadvantages of women’s empowerment, 57–58
evolution of expectations, 147–149
increasing acceptance of women’s need for, 75–76
pill’s promise of, 12–13 Sanger’s advocacy of, 18 Sexually transmitted diseases
(STDs), 85, 169
Shakers, 15 Side effects
Dalkon Shield, 131–132
David Susskind Show,
133–134
The Doctors’ Case Against the Pill,
130–132
FDA approval process, 33–34 life threatening effects,
128–129
lowered libido, 147–149
male contraceptives, 94–97, 113 men’s refusal to take risks,
102–104
menstrual irregularity, 155–157 negative side effects for men,
67–71
persistence of, 169
Playboy
’s stance on the pill and, 66–67
psychological and emotional, 154–155
Puerto Rican trials, 31 Senate hearings on the safety
of the pill, 100, 132–133 vaccine for men, 107–108 women’s anger over, 98 women’s health advocates’
concerns, 5–6
See also
Safety concerns Single women
campus health services’ refusal to prescribe the pill, 88
sexual revolution and the pill, 72–73
See also
Premarital sex Southern Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 49–50
Sperm banks, 105
Sperm switches, 104–105 Springhill Mine Disaster, 59–60 Statistical information
college health services prescribing the pill, 88
current contraceptive use, 168–169
fertility and population rates in developing countries,
52–53
global contraception statistics, 55–56
US pill use, 2, 144
world population growth, 36–37
Steinem, Gloria, 71–72, 74 Sterilization
of Asian women, 51
of men in developing countries, 96
of poor black women, 47–48 of the unfit, 19–21, 30
pre-pill contraceptive alternatives, 4
Stockwell, Edward, 43–44
Stone, Abraham, 24, 39–40
Strokes, 129–130
Suffrage, women’s, 22 Supreme Court, U.S., 118 Susskind, David, 133–134
Tavard, George, 125
Taylor, Gordon Rattray, 45–46 Teens
access to and use of birth control, 83, 152
Hefner’s attitude toward sex and birth control for, 66
morning-after pill, 165
Norplant use, 139, 154 parental support of
contraceptive use, 154 pill use to relieve menstrual
irregularity, 152, 160 postwar sexual activity among,
74–75
sexual liberation through pill use, 153
side effects of the pill, 129 Teens Health, 147
Testing.
See
Clinical and informal trials
Thalidomide, 111, 127–128
Thrombosis, 128–129, 134
Time
, 81–82, 132
Today’s Health,
102
Tranquilizers, 126–128
Trust, 112, 114–115, 151, 158
Tyler, Edward, 33–34
Umbrelly, spoof, 103–104 United Nations conference on
population, 53–54
United States v. One Package,
19 University of Kansas, 87–88 Unwanted pregnancy
baby boom era stigma, 77 Catholic position on birth
control, 120–121 women’s failure to use birth
control, 83–84
See also
Unwed mothers Unwed mothers
Playboy
humor, 64–65 postwar political and social
climate, 76–77, 89 recent changes in social
acceptance, 143, 149
social stigma, 58–59
Urban League, 49
Urban violence, 46–47
U.S. News & World Report,
80–81, 121
Utopian communities, birth control in, 15
Utopian dreams, pill’s role in fulfilling, 71–72,
167–168
Vaccine, 107–108
Values, 82–83, 91, 115, 149–150
Vasectomy, 94, 100–101, 105,
110
Vatican II, 123–126
Viagra, 116
Vice, contraception as, 16, 18 Virginity
college women in the 1960s, 78, 82, 84–86
conservatives’ view of, 88
film portrayal of the loss of, 90 irresponsible sexual behavior
and, 150–151
religious values and, 115 Virility, 67–69
Voluntary motherhood, 15–16
Wang, Christina, 113–114 War on Poverty, 43 WebMD, 147
Welfare state, 47, 138–139 William S. Merrell, Inc.,
127–128
Withdrawal method, 4, 15
The Woman Rebel,
17–18 “Womanization.”
See
Momism.
Women’s health movement, 134–136, 162
Women’s rights movement birth control movement
emerging from, 17 demanding government action
in regulation, 5–6 intersections with population
control movement, 38–39 and pill’s potential for
liberation, 4
voluntary motherhood, 15–16
Woodhull, Victoria, 16 Worcester Foundation for
Experimental Biology, 23–24 World Health Organization
(WHO), 52–53, 97, 99–100,
108–109, 116, 137
World War II, 39–40, 76
Wyeth-Ayerst, 139–140
Wylie, Philip, 61–62
Yaz, 157
Zero Population Growth (ZPG) movement, 44–45