The business of birth control
Author: Claire L. Jones
ISBN: 9781526136282
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Year first published: 08 Sep 2020
Pages: 256
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781526136282
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Year first published: 08 Sep 2020
Pages: 256
Format: Hardback
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.