Visually and politically provocative, UNDER THE SKIN GAME combines images from instructional films, 1950's melodrama, and the nightly news to show how contraceptive implant Norplant is being used as an instrument of social control. Linking Norplant's prescription by state agencies to America's history of forced sterilizations and unethical Pill testing, Nerwen convincingly argues that a woman's right to control her reproductive destiny is still based on social status. Reasoned, angry, and eloquent, UNDER THE SKIN GAME is a much needed analysis of the use and abuse of contraceptive technologies and their relationship to the politics of race, class, and gender.