14/06/13
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I intend to carry out research using a variety of methods, including the use of books, such as 'On the Pill' by Elizabeth Siegel Watkins, and newspapers and magazines, in particular the Time Magazine's 1967 issue on 'The Pill.' (see link below)
http://topics.time.com/birth-control/
I also want to make use of the internet to access websites and materials like the BBC and Sandra Fluke's address to Congress. To develop the project further I would like to take advantage of the fact that I live in London to interview individuals if possible, including Dr Lara Marks, a trained historian of medicine who wrote the book "Sexual Chemistry: A history of the contraceptive pill" and Silvia Pezzini who published "The Effect of Women's Rights on Women's Welfare: evidence from a natural experiment" in the March 2005 Economic Journal. I want to incorporate oral histories and plan to approach Dr Jonathan Miller, Dr Rachel Miller and the Marie Stokes Clinic.
I also plan to study government statistics of family size and age at birth of first child on websites such as:
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/index.html
http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/
