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Gabfest Reads: How Two Rivals Shaped Birth Control in America
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:33:42
Publish Date: 2024-11-16 08:05:00
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Political Gabfest host Emily Bazelon talks with author Stephanie Gorton about her new book, The Icon & The Idealist.They discuss racism and prudishness in the early suffragist movement, how eugenics played a role in the birth control movement, and how two different women fought each other, despite wanting the same things. 


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Podcast production by Cheyna Roth.

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