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. The book outlines the impact of contraceptive
commodification on consumers, but also demonstrates 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. -- .
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