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Author Parry, Manon.

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

Publication Info. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 192 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Critical issues in health and medicine
Critical issues in health and medicine.
Bibliography 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.
Summary Traditionally, the history of the birth control movement has been told through the accounts of the leaders, organizations, and legislation that shaped the campaign. Historians have recently begun examining the cultural work of printed media, including newspapers, magazines, and novels in fostering support for the cause. This book builds upon this new scholarship on the women's reproductive health movement to explore the films and radio and television broadcasts developed by twentieth-century birth co.
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Subject Birth control -- Case studies.
Birth control.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Communication in family planning -- Case studies.
Communication in family planning.
Contraception -- history.
Mass Media -- history.
History, 20th Century.
Family Planning Services -- history.
Contraception Behavior -- history.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Case studies.
Other Form: Print version: Parry, Manon. Broadcasting birth control 9780813561523 (DLC) 2012040306 (OCoLC)812568978
ISBN 9780813561530 (electronic book)
0813561531 (electronic book)
9781461948711 (electronic book)
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