The Contraceptive Tetrad

The Pill, via Marshall McLuhan

Notes from a talk given recently at Assumption College, Massachusetts

Our title here is “Did feminism take a wrong turn?”. Today I want to come at this not from the angle of “right” and “wrong”, but that of technology.

One of the easiest casual mistakes to make about the past is imagining people there were basically like us, just with less advanced techn…