Broadcasting birth control : mass media and family planning / Manon Parry.

  • Parry, Manon.
Date:
[2013]
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Description

"Traditionally, the history of the birth control movement has been told through the accounts of the leaders, organizations, and legislation that shaped the campaign. Recently, historians have begun examining the cultural work of printed media, including newspapers, magazines, and even novels in fostering support for the cause. Broadcasting Birth Control builds on this new scholarship to explore the films and radio and television broadcasts developed by twentieth-century birth control advocates to promote family planning at home in the United States, and in the expanding international arena of population control. Mass media, Manon Parry contends, was critical to the birth control movement's attempts to build support and later to publicize the idea of fertility control and the availability of contraceptive services in the United States and around the world. Though these public efforts in advertising and education were undertaken initially by leading advocates, including Margaret Sanger, increasingly a growing class of public communications experts took on the role, mimicking the efforts of commercial advertisers to promote health and contraception in short plays, cartoons, films, and soap operas. In this way, they made a private subject--fertility control--appropriate for public discussion." -- Publisher's description.

Publication/Creation

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2013]

Physical description

xii, 192 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Battling silence and censorship -- The medium shapes the message -- Most of the world's people need Planned Parenthood -- Soap opera as soap box : family planning and the telenovela -- Twenty-first-century sex.

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    History of Medicine
    TPU.S.AA9-10
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  • 9780813561523
  • 0813561523
  • 9780813561516
  • 0813561515