Birth Control: What Everyone Needs to Know

Beth L. Sundstrom · Cara Delay

Oct 2020 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Chelsea Stephens

About this audiobook

Birth control offers women the opportunity to prevent pregnancy, plan and space their births, or have no births at all. And yet, in the United States, half of all pregnancies remain unintended, and access to birth control is beset by inequities in education, access, and coverage. Birth Control: What Everyone Needs to Know will offer more than a user's guide to available means of contraception: it will examine how supported family-planning infrastructure impacts society as a whole. Through reviews of policy, scientific literature, and supplemental interviews with women, it will uncover women's concerns and apprehensions about contraception, as well as the ways birth control empowers women and increases access to educational and professional opportunities. It will provide an overview the history of birth control, the risks and benefits of contraception, the role of menstruation, and the future of birth control. The goal of this book is to provide accurate, unbiased scientific information about contraception in the context of women's lived experiences and the realities of how individuals make decisions about birth control.

About the author

Beth L. Sundstrom is an associate professor of communication and public health and the director of the Women's Health Research Team (WHRT) at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina. She is the author of Reproductive Justice and Women's Voices: Health Communication across the Lifespan.

Cara Delay, a historian with degrees from Boston College and Brandeis University, is a professor of history at the College of Charleston. Her books include Irish Women and the Creation of Modern Catholicism, 1850-1950 and Women, Reform, and Resistance in Ireland, 1850-1950.

Chelsea Stephens has a longtime love and appreciation for the performing arts, with experience in on-stage acting, singing, and voice-over. Her love for reading books and the pursuit of the story led her to narration. She enjoys unfolding characters and bringing listeners into new worlds.