Fifty years of the pill
July 20, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Introduced in 1960, the world’s most popular oral contraceptive is now taken for granted. Last year, Virago republished Mary McCarthy’s 1963 novel The Group, with a new introduction by the author of Sex and the City, Candace Bushnell. The Group is a novel which some of my dearest friends consider to be a) seminal and b) as racy, in its way, as Peyton Place, so I went out and bought the new edition, and read it over the course of a lazy weekend. Did I like it? Oh yes. The story of eight female graduates choosing careers... [Read More]
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