Claire L. Jones

The business of birth control

Contraception and commerce in Britain before the sexual revolution

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume provides a new commercial perspective on contraception in modern Britain. It examines contraceptives as commodities and demonstrates the significance of the contraceptive industry in shaping sexual knowledge alongside the medical profession, the birth control movement, and the state before the emergence of the contraceptive pill.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9781526136282
• ISBN-10: 1526136287
• Artikelnr.: 58585671

Autorenporträt

Claire L. Jones is Senior Lecturer in the History of Medicine at the University of Kent

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: contraceptive commercialisation before the Pill 1 The
dynamics of production: contraceptive manufacturing 2 Shaping markets:
packaging, brands and trademarks 3 The print culture of contraceptives:
advertising and the circulation of birth control knowledge 4 'As honest as
business permits': medical practitioners, birth control clinics and
contraceptive efficacy 5 Over the counter and on the high street:
contraceptive retailing in the urban landscape Epilogue