1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color with black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Reproduction Info:
Reproduced in DVD format in 2018; Originally released as a videocassette in 2003 by PBS Home Video; Pursuant to section 108 of the U.S. Copyright Act, the Luther College library has preserved this material in a digital format because the media was deteriorating and it was not longer possible to purchase an original at time of reproduction. Further reproduction is prohibited.
Originally broadcast on PBS as a segment of The American Experience. Narrator, Blair Brown.
Contents:
"Featuring personal accounts from the first generation of women to have access to the Pill, this film shows how harnessing female hormones into a little pill unleashed a social revolution unlike any other in our history" -- Container.
Summary:
(Producer) The tale of the development of "the pill" was as unusual as the contraceptive itself. Key players included two activists financing research; a devout Catholic gynecologist touting the pill as "natural," and a biologist bullying a pharmaceutical company into risking boycotts. Investigates the tiny catalyst of a society in transition.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1057362456
Locations:
PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.