In Our Control The Complete Guide to Contraceptive Choices for Women

by Eldridge, Laura; Baumgardner, Jennifer

• ISBN13: 9781583229071
• ISBN10: 1583229078
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-07-06
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press

Summary

Everything you need to know about sexual health and birth control.

Author Biography

Laura Eldridge is a women's health writer and activist. Her latest books are The No-Nonsense Guide to Menopause and Body Politic: Dispatches from the Women's Health Revolution, both authored with women's health pioneer Barbara Seaman. In Our Control is her first book as a solo author.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Past Tense: Contraceptive History Before the Twenty-first Century	p. 9
A Pill Primer: Hormonal Contraception for the Twenty-first Century	p. 33
Hidden in Plain Sight: Nonhormonal Contraceptive Options	p. 79
By Any Other Name: Alternative Distribution Methods and Hormonal Contraception	p. 111
Of Tides and Phases: Menstruation and Birth Control	p. 133
Spotless: Questions and Controversies with New Menstrual Suppression Drugs	p. 155
Like Candy: The Politics of the Morning-After Pill and Bringing Hormonal Contraception Over the Counter	p. 179
Running in Cycles: Fertility Awareness and Natural Birth Control	p. 205
One Less? Facts and Fictions about HPV Vaccinations	p. 227
What About the Boys? Or, Why Is There Still No Pill for Men?	p. 253
Going Green: The Environmental Burden of Contraception	p. 277
Around the World in Twenty-eight Days: International Issues in Reproductive and Contraceptive Health	p. 291
Resource Guide	p. 309
Acknowledgments	p. 313
Notes	p. 317
Index	p. 353
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