From the March 2015 Issue Pregnancy Pauses The Birth of the Pill: How Four Pioneers Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution By Jonathan Eig In the Family Way: Illegitimacy Between the Great War and the Swinging Sixties By Jane Robinson LR
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