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Pill trials in Puerto Rico (1956)
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1956 — The first large field trials of the contraceptive pill take place in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico. Hundreds of women volunteer for a drug they are told prevents pregnancy, but not that it is experimental or that side effects are being studied.
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- Origins of second-wave feminism (chapter 1 of Feminism and the Tunisian Revolution)
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- Protest and Change: Second-Wave Feminism and Tunisia, 1945–2015
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