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PREGNANCY TEST - KAREN WEINGARTEN KARTONIERT (TB)

Object Lessons is a series of short  beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of
ordinary things. In the 1970s  the invention of the home pregnancy test changed what it means
to be pregnant. For the first time  women could use a technology in the privacy of their own
homes that gave them a yes or no answer. That answer had the power to change the course of
their reproductive lives  and it chipped away at a paternalistic culture that gave
gynecologists-the majority of whom were men-control over information about women's bodies.
However  while science so often promises clear-cut answers  the reality of pregnancy is often
much messier. Pregnancy Test explores how the pregnancy test has not always lived up to the
fantasy that more information equals more knowledge. Karen Weingarten examines the history and
cultural representation of the pregnancy test to show how this object radically changed sex and
pregnancy in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Object Lessons is published in partnership
with an essay series in the The Atlantic.

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