New at Reason: Katherine Mangu-Ward on Geopolitics and the Pill

June 18, 2010

When the Food and Drug Administration approved oral contraception in 1960, everybody understood that it was a big deal. But as Senior Editor Katherine Mangu-Ward writes in our July issue, an awful lot of people were wrong about why it was a big deal. Contrary to the expectations of the time, the Pill did not 1) defuse the population bomb, 2) end the Cold War, or 3) turn American women into sexually ravenous maneaters.

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