Business of Birth Control
«
'[...] 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
The business of birth control 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. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Manchester University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 256
- ISBN
- 9781526136282
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 22 x 14 cm
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«
'[...] 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