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

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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. -- .

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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 centurys 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

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