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The Birth of the Pill by Jonathan Eig

The Birth of the Pill

How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution

by Jonathan Eig
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  • Oct 13, 2014, 400 pages
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  • Oct 2014, 400 pages
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