The Business of Birth Control: Contraception and Commerce in Britain Before the Sexual Revolution

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Claire L. Jones

The Business of Birth Control

Contraception and Commerce in Britain Before the Sexual Revolution

Claire L. Jones

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English

Manchester University Press
08 September 2020

Series: Manchester University Press

This volume provides a significant new commercial perspective on contraception in modern Britain.

It is the first book-length study to examine contraceptives as commodities and to demonstrate 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.

By: Claire L. Jones
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 449g
ISBN: 9781526136282
ISBN 10: 1526136287
Series: Manchester University Press
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 08 September 2020
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

Reviews for The Business of Birth Control: Contraception and Commerce in Britain Before the Sexual Revolution

'[...] a much-needed addition'. Metascience 'The work of Jones and Drucker reveals key insights into how commerce and technology were both powerful enough forces to overcome the medical and legal restrictions that shaped reproductive health in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but also maintained and even exacerbated racial and gendered reproductive inequality... absorbing and critiquing these lessons from the past will be a crucial task in the making of this century’s reproductive policies of access and inclusion.' Lauren MacIvor Thompson, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, USA, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 2023 -- .