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    Enovid-E, 313, 317
    Enzman, E. V., 73, 75
    Episcopal Church, 50
    E. R. Squibb & Co., 246
    Esquire, 312
    “Essay on the Principle of Population, An” (Malthus), 47–48
    estrogen, 10, 72, 73, 115–17, 118, 122, 138, 177, 218, 242–43, 278, 301
    estrus, 13
    Ethyl Corporation, 136
    eugenics, 24–25, 42–43, 52–53, 71, 73–74, 148–50
    Eugenics Record Office, 148
    Evangelist, 268–69
    extractions, 122–23
    extramarital affairs, 5, 14, 17, 56, 186–87, 311
    fallopian tubes, 10, 183
    Falloppio, Gabriele, 7
    false pregnancies, 115, 118
    “family control,” 46
    family planning, 6, 20, 24, 43, 46, 57, 108–10, 123, 133, 148, 150, 164–65, 168–71, 177–78, 184–86, 197–98, 231–32, 268, 278, 285, 302
    Family Planning Association of England, 296
    Family Planning Association of Puerto Rico, 168, 229, 239
    Fascism, 71
    fatigue, 158
    “feeblemindedness,” 52–53
    Feminine Mystique, The (Friedan), 187
    feminism, 3, 34–35, 39–40, 47, 146–47, 186, 187, 212, 220, 222, 223–24, 266–68, 319–20, 321
    Fernández Fuster, Manuel, 172
    fetuses, 10, 105, 270–71
    fevers, 78
    Fifth International Conference of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (1955), 199–200, 201, 209, 210–18, 219
    Fifties The: A Women’s Oral History (Harvey), 18–20
    flappers, 126
    Flower, Bardwell, 176–77
    fluid retention, 290
    Flynn, Errol, 126
    foams, spermicidal, 140
    Food and Drug Administration (FDA), 242–43, 245, 253, 256–57, 258, 261–62, 274–75, 277, 281–92, 297–303, 308, 311
    Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (1938), 282
    Ford, Henry, 54
    Fortune, 275
    Foucault, Michel, 53–54
    Fourth International Conference on Planned Parenthood (1953), 147–48
    France, 314
    Freedom Riders, 319
    Free Hospital for Women, 105, 132–34
    “free love,” 39
    Free Synagogue, 65
    Freud, Sigmund, 14–16, 18, 32, 34, 78–79, 187
    Friedan, Betty, 187, 319
    Friedman, M. H., 9
    frozen eggs, 154
    Gamble, Clarence, 60, 160–61, 231, 250
    Gamble, David Berry, 160
    Garcia, Celso-Ramón, 233, 242
    Garcia, Julia, 241
    gasoline, 136
    G. D. Searle & Co., 26–28, 79, 118–20, 139, 144–45, 162, 191, 205, 206, 232, 240, 242–48, 249, 254–61, 264, 274–79, 283, 285–92, 293, 297–304, 311, 313, 314, 315–16, 331 n
    gender roles, 126, 187–88, 220, 319–20
    General Electric (GE), 64
    Genesis, Book of, 107
    genetics, 71–72, 174
    “genital stagnation,” 16
    germs, 174, 175
    Gershwin, George and Ira, 215
    Gimbels department store, 19
    “girlie magazines,” 18, 279–80
    glucose, 123
    goats, 122
    God, 45, 55, 65, 71, 108, 169, 221, 226, 267, 279
    Goldin, Claudia, 320
    Goldman, Emma, 34
    gonads, 122
    Good, Frederick, 111
    Goodbye, Columbus (Roth), 279
    Good Housekeeping, 306–7
    Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., 7
    Grable, Betty, 18
    Great Britain, 14, 258, 296, 321
    Great Depression, 79, 109, 187, 194
    Greenway, Isabella, 202–3
    Griswold v. Connecticut, 318
    Grove Press, 279, 281
    guinea pigs, 121
    Guttmacher, Alan, 103–4
    gynecologists, 51–52, 103–4, 131–32, 158, 245, 257, 259, 262, 278, 289, 314
    hair loss, 119–20, 145
    Haiti, 251–52, 273, 274, 304
    Hale, Robert, 41
    Hannaford, Philip, 321
    Harlem, 53
    Harvard University, 2, 9, 69–78, 79, 93, 102, 103–4, 105, 111, 131, 154, 176, 181, 195, 206–7, 259, 309
    Harvey, Brett, 18–20
    Harvey, John L., 299
    Harvey, William, 14
    Hayes, Patrick, 55
    Haywood, Bill, 34
    headaches, 251
    heart attacks, 292
    heart disease, 321
    Hechter, Oscar, 88
    Hefner, Hugh, 5, 17–18, 188–89, 265, 294
    hemorrhages, 167
    Henry Street Settlement House, 34–35
    Henshaw, Paul, 128–30, 131, 143
    hereditary conditions, 52–53
    Higgins, Ethel, 47
    Higgins, Mary, 32
    Higgins, Michael, 31–32
    Higgins, Nan, 32
    High School of Commerce, 104
    Hindus, 124
    Hippocrates, 13–14
    Hirsch, Maurice de, 63
    Hoagland, Hudson, 3, 26, 71–72, 78–81, 82, 83, 93, 99, 153, 154, 156, 176, 322
    Hoagland-Pincus Conference Center, 322
    Holland-Rantos Co., 51–52
    homosexuality, 17,
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