Рождение таблетки. Как четверо энтузиастов переоткрыли секс и совершили революцию

K nachalu 1950-kh godov semeĭnai͡a zhiznʹ v SShA kazalasʹ prochnoĭ i garmonichnoĭ: zheny v nakrakhmalennykh perednikakh posvi͡ashchali denʹ vospitanii͡u deteĭ i vedenii͡u khozi͡aĭstva, a po vecheram vstrechali muzheĭ s bokalom martini. A za kulisami ėtoĭ idillii zhenshchiny, v tom chisle mnogodetnye materi, pisali otchai͡annye pisʹma aktivnoĭ feministke, osnovatelʹnit͡se Amerikanskoĭ ligi kontroli͡a nad rozhdaemostʹi͡u Margaret Sėnger. Ona byla ikh posledneĭ nadezhdoĭ poluchitʹ prostoe i nadezhnoe sredstvo kontrat͡sept͡sii.Sėnger stala motorom, serdt͡sem gruppy iz chetyrekh chelovek, vdokhnovli͡ai͡a ikh na poisk chudo-tabletki. Ėtimi li͡udʹmi byli sama Margaret Sėnger, izgnannyĭ iz Garvarda ėkst͡sentrichnyĭ uchenyĭ Gregori Pinkus, gluboko verui͡ushchiĭ katolik vrach Dzhon Rok i t͡seleustremlennai͡a naslednit͡sa millionov, lider dvizhenii͡a za prava zhenshchin Kėtrin Mak-Kormik.'Rozhdenie tabletki' - ėto neveroi͡atnai͡a istorii͡a o samom radikalʹnom sot͡sialʹnom proryve XX veka, sovershennom blagodari͡a muzhestvu, netradit͡sionnomu myshlenii͡u i vere v svoe delo. Ob otkrytii, kotoroe provozglasilo seks-revoli͡ut͡sii͡u, izmenilo zhiznʹ vsego obshchestva i podarilo millionam zhenshchin novye vozmozhnosti i svobodu.

By the early 1950s, family life in the United States seemed solid and harmonious: wives in starched aprons devoted the day to raising children and running the household, and in the evening met their husbands with a glass of Martini. And behind the scenes of this idyll, women, including mothers with many children, wrote desperate letters to an active feminist, the founder of the American birth control League, Margaret Sanger. It was their last hope of getting a simple and reliable means of contraception.Sanger became the motor, the heart of the group of four, inspiring them to search for the miracle pill. These people were Margaret Sanger herself, the exiled Harvard academic Gregory Pincus, the deeply Catholic doctor John Rock, and the single-minded heiress to millions, the women's rights leader Catherine McCormick.'The birth of the pill' is an incredible story about the most radical social breakthrough of the XX century, made thanks to courage, unconventional thinking and faith in their cause. About a discovery that heralded the sex revolution, changed the life of the entire society, and gave millions of women new opportunities and freedom.