control
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,