Materializing Gender through Contraceptive Technology in the United States, 1930s–1940s

Technology’s Stories vol. 5, no. 1 – DOI: 10.15763/JOU.TS.2017.4.1.01 PDF: Drucker_Materializing Gender This essay focuses on the intersection of gender, sexuality, and technology in the use of barrier methods (diaphragms and cervical caps) along with spermicides as contraceptive technologies in the 1930s and 1940s United States. Documents on contraceptive technologies in this era favor doctors’ … Continue reading Materializing Gender through Contraceptive Technology in the United States, 1930s–1940s