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The business of birth control
Contraception and commerce in Britain before the sexual revolutionManchester University Press
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129,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Manchester University Press |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 15.09.2020 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781526136305 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 256 |
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Beschreibungen
<i>The business of birth control</i> is the first book-length study to examine contraceptives as commodities in Britain before the pill. Drawing on new archives and neglected promotional and commercial material, the book demonstrates how hundreds of companies transformed condoms and rubber and chemical pessaries into consumer goods that became widely available via discreet mail order catalogues, newspapers, birth control clinics, chemists’ shops and vending machines in an era when older and more reserved ways of thinking about sex jostled uncomfortably with modern and more open attitudes. The book outlines the impact of contraceptive commodification on consumers, but also demonstrates how closely the contraceptive industry was intertwined with the medical profession and the birth control movement, who sought authority in birth control knowledge at a time when sexual knowledge and who had access to it was contested.
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.
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
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
Claire L. Jones is Senior Lecturer in the History of Medicine at the University of Kent
<i>The business of birth control </i>is the first book-length study to examine contraceptives as commodities in Britain before the advent of the Pill in the 1960s. Drawing on new archives and neglected promotional and commercial materials, the book demonstrates how hundreds of companies transformed condoms, douches and pessaries into consumer goods. These products became widely available via discreet mail-order catalogues, newspapers, birth control clinics, chemists’ shops and vending machines.
With its focus on the interwar period, the book demonstrates how contraceptive commodification shaped sexual and birth control knowledge and practice at a time when older, more restrictive moral values surrounding sexuality uncomfortably co-existed with a vision of the future promised by science, medicine and technology. The commodification of birth control came into conflict with medicalisation efforts by the state, the medical profession and the birth control movement, as well as attempts at censorship by social purity groups that sought to maintain sexual ignorance among much of the population.
Drawing on approaches from the history of medicine, material and print culture studies and social and cultural history, the book serves as an important reminder that businesses were integral to shaping medical, economic, social and cultural attitudes towards sex and birth control. Additionally, it sheds new light on the ambiguities and tensions of interwar Britain more broadly and demonstrates how the contraceptive Pill emerged from these interwar struggles.
With its focus on the interwar period, the book demonstrates how contraceptive commodification shaped sexual and birth control knowledge and practice at a time when older, more restrictive moral values surrounding sexuality uncomfortably co-existed with a vision of the future promised by science, medicine and technology. The commodification of birth control came into conflict with medicalisation efforts by the state, the medical profession and the birth control movement, as well as attempts at censorship by social purity groups that sought to maintain sexual ignorance among much of the population.
Drawing on approaches from the history of medicine, material and print culture studies and social and cultural history, the book serves as an important reminder that businesses were integral to shaping medical, economic, social and cultural attitudes towards sex and birth control. Additionally, it sheds new light on the ambiguities and tensions of interwar Britain more broadly and demonstrates how the contraceptive Pill emerged from these interwar struggles.
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