Katharine Dexter Mccormick
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Katharine Dexter Mccormick
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Author : Armond Fields
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 2003-07-30
Katharine Dexter Mccormick written by Armond Fields and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The issues for which Katharine Dexter McCormick (1874-1967) fought are as important today as they were seventy-five years ago: birth control, sex education, abortion, equal pay for equal work, and freedom from sexual harassment. She was a driving force in the battle for the women's vote, the formation of the Women's League of Voters, the creation of Planned Parenthood, and the development of the birth control pill. McCormick stepped forward when others were afraid to act, and her unflagging fidelity to the cause made possible the social, political, and scientific achievements that today mark the difference between misery and opportunity for millions of women. Although she was born into a world of privilege with many intellectual talents, McCormick's life was not without its significant challenges. Many of the issues to which she devoted her life remain controversial and are still under attack by their opponents. Due to her modesty, McCormick neither sought nor received public accolades during her lifetime. Nonetheless, her long-time crusades and achievements revolutionized the role of women, not only in America, but throughout the world. Scientist, humanitarian, and lifelong champion of women's rights, her determination and commitment provide a pattern to inspire women today and tomorrow.
A Tribute To Katharine Dexter Mccormick
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Author : Massachusetts Institute of Technology
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
A Tribute To Katharine Dexter Mccormick written by Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with categories.
The Birth Of The Pill How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex And Launched A Revolution
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Author : Jonathan Eig
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2014-10-13
The Birth Of The Pill How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex And Launched A Revolution written by Jonathan Eig and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-13 with Science categories.
A Chicago Tribune "Best Books of 2014" • A Slate "Best Books 2014: Staff Picks" • A St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Best Books of 2014" The fascinating story of one of the most important scientific discoveries of the twentieth century. We know it simply as "the pill," yet its genesis was anything but simple. Jonathan Eig's masterful narrative revolves around four principal characters: the fiery feminist Margaret Sanger, who was a champion of birth control in her campaign for the rights of women but neglected her own children in pursuit of free love; the beautiful Katharine McCormick, who owed her fortune to her wealthy husband, the son of the founder of International Harvester and a schizophrenic; the visionary scientist Gregory Pincus, who was dismissed by Harvard in the 1930s as a result of his experimentation with in vitro fertilization but who, after he was approached by Sanger and McCormick, grew obsessed with the idea of inventing a drug that could stop ovulation; and the telegenic John Rock, a Catholic doctor from Boston who battled his own church to become an enormously effective advocate in the effort to win public approval for the drug that would be marketed by Searle as Enovid. Spanning the years from 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.
Current Literature In Family Planning
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Author : Katharine Dexter McCormick Library
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Current Literature In Family Planning written by Katharine Dexter McCormick Library and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Birth control categories.
A Family Planning Library Manual
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Author : Gloria A. Roberts
language : en
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Katharine Dexter McCormick Library, Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Release Date : 1982-01-01
A Family Planning Library Manual written by Gloria A. Roberts and has been published by New York, N.Y. : Katharine Dexter McCormick Library, Planned Parenthood Federation of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982-01-01 with Classification categories.
Riven Rock
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Author : T. C. Boyle
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2011-07-01
Riven Rock written by T. C. Boyle and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-01 with Fiction categories.
This extraordinary love story, based on historical characters and written with Boyle's customary brilliance and wit, follows the lives of two scarred creatures living in a magical age. It is the turn of the century. Stanley McCormick, the twenty-nine-year-old heir to the great Reaper fortune, meets and marries Katherine Dexter, a woman of 'power, beauty, wealth and prestige'. Two years later, Stanley falls victim to a tormenting sexual mania and schizophrenia, and is imprisoned in the massive forbidding mansion known as Riven Rock. He spends the next two decades under the control of a succession of psychiatrists, all of whom forbid any contact with women. Yet Katherine Dexter, now famous as a champion for women's suffrage and Planned Parenthood, remains strong in her belief that someday her husband will return to her whole. Based on a true story of love, madness and sexuality this is a tragic book with enormous depth and scope. Set in America at the turn of the century, it is full of fascinating historical detail.
The International Harvester Company
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Author : Chaim M. Rosenberg
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2019-04-29
The International Harvester Company written by Chaim M. Rosenberg and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-29 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Ancient farmers used draft animals for plowing but the heavy work of harvesting fell to the humans, using sickle and scythe. Change came in the mid-19th century when Cyrus Hall McCormick built the mechanical harvester. Though the McCormicks used their wealth to establish art collections and universities, battle disease, and develop birth control, members of the family faced constant scrutiny and scandal. This book recounts their story as well as the history of the International Harvester Company (IHC)--a merger of the McCormick and Deering companies and the world's leader in agricultural machinery in the 1900s.
A Small Library In Family Planning For The General Reader
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Author : Planned Parenthood-World Population (U.S.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
A Small Library In Family Planning For The General Reader written by Planned Parenthood-World Population (U.S.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with categories.
Funding Feminism
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Author : Joan Marie Johnson
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2017-08-04
Funding Feminism written by Joan Marie Johnson and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-04 with Social Science categories.
Joan Marie Johnson examines an understudied dimension of women's history in the United States: how a group of affluent white women from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries advanced the status of all women through acts of philanthropy. This cadre of activists included Phoebe Hearst, the mother of William Randolph Hearst; Grace Dodge, granddaughter of Wall Street "Merchant Prince" William Earle Dodge; and Ava Belmont, who married into the Vanderbilt family fortune. Motivated by their own experiences with sexism, and focusing on women's need for economic independence, these benefactors sought to expand women's access to higher education, promote suffrage, and champion reproductive rights, as well as to provide assistance to working-class women. In a time when women still wielded limited political power, philanthropy was perhaps the most potent tool they had. But even as these wealthy women exercised considerable influence, their activism had significant limits. As Johnson argues, restrictions tied to their giving engendered resentment and jeopardized efforts to establish coalitions across racial and class lines. As the struggle for full economic and political power and self-determination for women continues today, this history reveals how generous women helped shape the movement. And Johnson shows us that tensions over wealth and power that persist in the modern movement have deep historical roots.
Family Planning Classification
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Author : Blanche Horowitz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
Family Planning Classification written by Blanche Horowitz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Classification categories.