Record Nr.

UNINA9910453590303321

Autore

Parry Manon

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa


New Brunswick, New Jersey : , : Rutgers University Press, , 2013
©2013

ISBN

0-8135-6153-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Collana

Critical Issues in Health and Medicine

Critical issues in health and medicine

Disciplina

363.9/6

Soggetti

Birth control

Communication in family planning

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Battling Silence and Censorship -- Chapter 3. The Medium Shapes the Message -- Chapter 4. "Most of the World's People Need Planned Parenthood" -- Chapter 5. Soap Opera as Soap Box: Family Planning and the Telenovela -- Chapter 6. Twenty-First- Century Sex: The Small Screen -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

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. Parry examines these trends to shed light on the contested nature of the motivations of birth control advocates. Acknowledging that supporters of contraception were not always motivated by the best interests of individual women, Parry concludes that family planning advocates were nonetheless convinced of women's desire for contraception and highly aware of the ethical issues involved in the use of the media to inform and persuade.

Record Nr.

UNISA996386880203316

Autore

Thomson George <17th cent.>

Titolo

Misochymias elenchos, or, A check given to the insolent garrulity of Henry Stubbe [[electronic resource] ] : in vindication of my Lord Bacon and the author : with an assertion of experimental philosophy : also some practical observations exhibited for the credit of the true chymical science / by George Thomson .