The Business of birth control: Contraception and commerce in Britain before the sexual revolution
- Submitting institution
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The University of Kent
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 20163
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- ISBN
- 9781526136282
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This is a research monograph and a “longer-form output”. The book includes 238 pages and was researched over ten-year period drawing on public, private and company archives and neglected promotional and commercial material in the UK. It is the first book-length study to examine contraceptives as commodities in Britain before the pill. The book demonstrates the impact of contraceptive commodification on consumers and 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.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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