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To learn more about Katharine Dexter McCormick we recommend:
Katharine Dexter McCormick: Fierce Feminist and Secret Smuggler
Katharine Dexter McCormick a Catalyst for Change
Fields, Armond. Katharine Dexter McCormick: Pioneer for Women's Rights. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2003.
To read more about the development and testing of Enovid, we recommend:
'A Cage of Ovulating Females,' the development and testing of the oral birth control pill
Drucker, Donna J. Contraception: a Concise History. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2020.
Contraceptive Trials in Puerto Rico
This exhibit was curated by Yasmin Sanie-Hay and Thera Webb, Women@MIT Project Archivist, in 2025 to commemorate Katharine Dexter McCormick's 150th birthday.
