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American Experience Films
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In May 1960, the FDA approved the sale of a pill that arguably would have a greater impact on American culture than any other drug in the nation's history. For women across the country, the contraceptive pill was liberating: it allowed them to pursue careers, fueled the feminist and pro-choice movements and encouraged more open attitudes towards sex. Among the key players in the development of the drug were two elderly female activists who demanded a contraceptive women could eat like aspirin and then paid for the scientific research; a devout Catholic gynecologist who believed a robust sex life made for a good marriage and argued tirelessly that the Pill was a natural form of birth control; and a brilliant biologist who bullied a pharmaceutical company into risking a possibly crippling boycott to develop this revolutionary contraceptive. In describing the obstacles they all hurdled, The Pill presents a compelling account of a society in transition.
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Fire in the Heart
Bertha Lutz: Women and the U.N. Charter
Show Her the Money
Hidden Eden
Worth Every Minute
Looking for Simone
Margaret Kilgallen: Heroines
Viva la Vulva: Women's Sex Organs Revealed
Des femmes
Les Champs de la colère
Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing
Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
Fort Saganne
Women Is Losers
Regarding Susan Sontag
I Am FEMEN
Mujer de Tierra
The Thousand Colours of the Morning
Figure 1
Night Will Fall
A Plastic Ocean
The Red Pill
The Soviet Story
Above Majestic
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Love, Gilda
To Be Takei
Maternal Instinct
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Visions of Light
The Matrix Recalibrated
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
What Is a Woman?
Halftime
Heart of a Dog
Fuck
Room 237
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