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Money may not buy true happiness. True happiness may not come in a pill. But how about liberation for millions of American women?
The invention of the birth control pill in the early 1960s proved to be a watershed moment in the struggle for women's rights in America. Not only were more women able to control when and if they were to have children, but they were essentially freed to persue fullfillment in the boardroom, as well as in the bedroom.
Through the stories of key birth control pioneers including Margaret Sanger, Katharine McCormick, Gregory Pincus, and John Rock, "The Pill" explores the origins of the pill from development to distribution and examines why the pill is a crucial link to the liberation of American women.
Local Resources
New York City was home to birth control advocate Margaret Sanger; Brooklyn was home to the world's first birth control clinic. Check out these local online resources to learn more about our region's connections to the pill and women's history:
The Margaret Sanger Papers Project, New York University
http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
http://www.plannedparenthood.org
The Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Papers, Rutgers University
http://ecssba.rutgers.edu/
The Office of Population Research, Princeton University
http://opr.princeton.edu/
National Women's Hall of Fame, Seneca, NY
http://www.greatwomen.org/
Alan Guttmacher Institute
http://www.agi-usa.org/
The Population Council
http://www.popcouncil.org
The Office of Population Research at Princeton University
http://opr.princeton.edu/
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1775-2000
http://womhist.binghamton.edu/
And also on PBS:
Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/menu.html
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