In Our Control

The Complete Guide to Contraceptive Choices for Women

By: Laura Eldridge

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Paperback | 6 July 2010 | Edition Number 1

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Do diaphragms work? Should you stay on the pill? What does fertility awareness really mean? The efficacy and risks of different birth control options are dramatically different today from what they once were thanks to scientific advances and increased awareness of STDs and other factors. In the most comprehensive book on birth control since the 1970s, women’s health activist Laura Eldridge discusses the history, scientific advances, and practical uses of everything from condoms to the male pill to Plan B.

Eldridge presents her meticulous research and unbiased consideration of our options in the intimate and honest tone of a close friend. Eldridge goes on to explore large-scale issues that might factor into women’s birth control choices, urging her readers to consider the environmental impacts of each method and to take part in a dialogue on how international reproductive health issues affect us all.

Whether you’re looking for your first birth control method or want to know more about your current contraceptive choice, A Field Guide to Birth Control offers the cutting-edge information and practical wisdom you’ll need to make empowered decisions about your sexual health.

Laura Eldridge is a women’s health writer and activist living in Brooklyn, New York. Her latest books are The No-Nonsense Guide to Menopause and Body Politic, with Barbara Seaman.

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"Straightforward, nonjudgmental, and honest ... Eldridge walks readers through the thought process within her critiques, which allows the reader to become a smart consumer of contraceptive options ... [Her] fresh voice was apparent on every page of In Our Control, and evoked the pro-woman, community-oriented feel of a volume of Our Bodies, Ourselves." --Gwen Emmons, Feminist Review

"I couldn't put In Our Control down. Reading Laura Eldridge's history about contraception blew my mind. We cannot allow pharmaceutical companies to endanger women lives! This book is about to regalvanize the women's health revolution!" --Betty Dodson

"Laura Eldridge's new book In Our Control: The Complete Guide to Contraceptive Choices for Women (Seven Stories Press, 2010) isn't kidding with that subtitle. The last time I remember reading so much detail about contraceptive options was poring over Our Bodies, Ourselves when I was in my 20s ... This is women's health activism at its best." --Elizabeth Kissling, Ms. Magazine

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Non-Fiction Family & Health Popular Medicine & Health Women's Health Medicine Pre-Clinical Medicine & Basic Sciences Human Reproduction, Growth & Development Reproductive Medicine Relationships & Families: Advice & Issues Sex & Sexuality: Advice & Issues Psychology Sexual Behaviour

Parenting: Advice & Issues Pregnancy, Birth & Baby Care Medicine in General Public Health & Preventive Medicine Personal & Public Health / Health Education Birth Control History of Medicine

Foreword	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Past Tense: Contraceptive History Before the Twenty-first Century	p. 9
A Pill Primer: Hormonal Contraception for the Twenty-first Century	p. 33
Hidden in Plain Sight: Nonhormonal Contraceptive Options	p. 79
By Any Other Name: Alternative Distribution Methods and Hormonal Contraception	p. 111
Of Tides and Phases: Menstruation and Birth Control	p. 133
Spotless: Questions and Controversies with New Menstrual Suppression Drugs	p. 155
Like Candy: The Politics of the Morning-After Pill and Bringing Hormonal Contraception Over the Counter	p. 179
Running in Cycles: Fertility Awareness and Natural Birth Control	p. 205
One Less? Facts and Fictions about HPV Vaccinations	p. 227
What About the Boys? Or, Why Is There Still No Pill for Men?	p. 253
Going Green: The Environmental Burden of Contraception	p. 277
Around the World in Twenty-eight Days: International Issues in Reproductive and Contraceptive Health	p. 291
Resource Guide	p. 309
Acknowledgments	p. 313
Notes	p. 317
Index	p. 353
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