Donna Drucker

The Cervical Cap in the Feminist Women’s Health Movement, 1976–1988

The late 1970s and early 1980s was the historical peak of interest in the cervical cap in the United States.

Through the Eyes of the Establishment: Student Sexuality and the Dean of Women’s Office at Purdue University

Donna Drucker Purdue University in northern Indiana, like most American colleges and universities, experienced dramatic social and cultural changes in the 1960s and 1970s. The Dean of Women’s Office—which oversaw the affairs of female students until it merged with the Dean of Men’s Office to form the Dean of Students […]

Astrological Birth Control: Fertility Awareness and the Politics of Non-Hormonal Contraception

By Donna Drucker June 11, 2015 Medicine and Sexuality 0 comments

Donna J. Drucker Astrological birth control was an outgrowth of increasing interests in the late 1960s and early 1970s in horoscopes and astrology, self-advocacy and self-knowledge in the women’s health movement, and in the management of reproduction without artificial means. Pope Paul VI declared in the 1968 encyclical Humane Vitae […]

Masters of Sex: Race, Racism and Responses to Masters and Johnson

By Donna Drucker December 16, 2014 Post-1945 United States Comments are Disabled

Note: Spoilers for seasons one and two of Masters of Sex are below. Donna J. Drucker The Showtime television program Masters of Sex focuses on the real-life American sex researchers William H. Masters (1915–2001) and Virginia E. Johnson (1925–2013). Masters and Johnson are best known for their first two book-length sex research […]