Holly Grigg-Spall in her book, Sweetening the Pill or How We Got Hooked on Hormonal Birth Control states that the perfected body in our culture is not female – but male. She raises an interesting question: if the essential biological center of femaleness is suppressed with synthetic hormones, then can we say that women on the pill are still ‘female’?
Holly Grigg-Spall will be sharing her research and concerns about synthetic hormone use.
We should all be concerned. By 2015 over 200 million women will be on birth control. How many of us know how this drug works – how many are told about the p
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