| Movie Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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The Pill. Prod. by Chana Gazit, David Steward, and Hilary Klotz. Steward/Gazit Productions, Inc., for American Experience, 2003. 60 mins. (PBS Video, 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314-1698; 800-344-3337; <shop@pbs.org>; <http://shop.pbs.org/education/> [Sept. 15, 2003])

Today, most Americans no longer flinch at the notion that millions of women take a small pill to prevent pregnancy. But when oral contraceptives first emerged in 1960, critics decried "the pill" as "unnatural" and feared an increase in sexual promiscuity. Supporters soon outnumbered dissenters as women eagerly sought the pill to control their reproductive lives. Scholars have recently begun to evaluate the fundamental place of this medical technology in modern American culture. The Pill, an American Experience production, locates the oral contraceptive as a driving force behind the evolution of contemporary gender relations as well as second-wave feminism and the sexual revolution. The result is an important and absorbing film that attempts to juggle the history of reproductive science and the social and cultural history of the American family.

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