The business of birth control

Contraception and commerce in Britain before the sexual revolution

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Manchester University Press
Claire L. Jones
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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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Contributor Bio

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

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