MANON PARRY is an assistant professor of public history at the University of Amsterdam. She is the coeditor of Women Physicians and the Cultures of Medicine.

"Broadcasting Birth Control covers a lot of ground in a clear and concise manner … This is a text that will be of use to both students and more experienced scholars, exemplifies the spirit of public history, and extends invitations to other projects on family planning and media." (Women's Studies) "To examine the broadcasting of birth control information from the silent era to the Internet, Parry thoroughly researched extensive media archives. Highly recommended."(Choice) "Manon Parry’s engrossing book, Broadcasting Birth Control, takes readers through the arguments early sexual and reproductive health advocates had when deciding what would be the best messaging to gain popular support for the use of contraception in America."(International Planned Parenthood Federation) "Parry's clear, compelling, meticulously researched, and accessible book is the first to specifically examine the extensive use of mass media to garner support for the legalization of birth control during the twentieth century." - Heather Munro Prescott (author of The Morning After: A History of Emergency Contraception in the United States) "By showing how the popular media helped win over a skeptical public, Parry deepens our understanding of the history of birth control . . . a subtle and persuasive reinterpretation." - Sonya Michel (University of Maryland) "Broadcasting Birth Control is jam-packed with surprising historical tidbits on ways the media has been used by the family planning movement since its inception. Manon Parry has done a major service to the family planning field by capturing the history of its early engagement with the media and the evolution of that engagement with all the pitfalls and challenges along the way."(Conscience: The News Journal of Catholic Opinion) "Parry reveals to us many important parts of the [birth control] story we have for too long overlooked."(Social History of Medicine) "[A] fine survey of the meditation of birth control." (Journal of American History)

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. Battling Silence and Censorship3. The Medium Shapes the Message4. "Most of the World's People Need Planned Parenthood"5. Soap Opera as Soap Box: Family Planning and the Telenovela6. Twenty-First-Century Sex: The Small ScreenNotesIndex

MANON PARRY is an assistant professor of public history at the University of Amsterdam. She is the coeditor of Women Physicians and the Cultures of Medicine.

"Broadcasting Birth Control covers a lot of ground in a clear and concise manner … This is a text that will be of use to both students and more experienced scholars, exemplifies the spirit of public history, and extends invitations to other projects on family planning and media." (Women's Studies) "To examine the broadcasting of birth control information from the silent era to the Internet, Parry thoroughly researched extensive media archives. Highly recommended."(Choice) "Manon Parry’s engrossing book, Broadcasting Birth Control, takes readers through the arguments early sexual and reproductive health advocates had when deciding what would be the best messaging to gain popular support for the use of contraception in America."(International Planned Parenthood Federation) "Parry's clear, compelling, meticulously researched, and accessible book is the first to specifically examine the extensive use of mass media to garner support for the legalization of birth control during the twentieth century." - Heather Munro Prescott (author of The Morning After: A History of Emergency Contraception in the United States) "By showing how the popular media helped win over a skeptical public, Parry deepens our understanding of the history of birth control . . . a subtle and persuasive reinterpretation." - Sonya Michel (University of Maryland) "Broadcasting Birth Control is jam-packed with surprising historical tidbits on ways the media has been used by the family planning movement since its inception. Manon Parry has done a major service to the family planning field by capturing the history of its early engagement with the media and the evolution of that engagement with all the pitfalls and challenges along the way."(Conscience: The News Journal of Catholic Opinion) "Parry reveals to us many important parts of the [birth control] story we have for too long overlooked."(Social History of Medicine) "[A] fine survey of the meditation of birth control." (Journal of American History)

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. Battling Silence and Censorship3. The Medium Shapes the Message4. "Most of the World's People Need Planned Parenthood"5. Soap Opera as Soap Box: Family Planning and the Telenovela6. Twenty-First-Century Sex: The Small ScreenNotesIndex

MANON PARRY is an assistant professor of public history at the University of Amsterdam. She is the coeditor of Women Physicians and the Cultures of Medicine.

"Broadcasting Birth Control covers a lot of ground in a clear and concise manner … This is a text that will be of use to both students and more experienced scholars, exemplifies the spirit of public history, and extends invitations to other projects on family planning and media." (Women's Studies) "To examine the broadcasting of birth control information from the silent era to the Internet, Parry thoroughly researched extensive media archives. Highly recommended."(Choice) "Manon Parry’s engrossing book, Broadcasting Birth Control, takes readers through the arguments early sexual and reproductive health advocates had when deciding what would be the best messaging to gain popular support for the use of contraception in America."(International Planned Parenthood Federation) "Parry's clear, compelling, meticulously researched, and accessible book is the first to specifically examine the extensive use of mass media to garner support for the legalization of birth control during the twentieth century." - Heather Munro Prescott (author of The Morning After: A History of Emergency Contraception in the United States) "By showing how the popular media helped win over a skeptical public, Parry deepens our understanding of the history of birth control . . . a subtle and persuasive reinterpretation." - Sonya Michel (University of Maryland) "Broadcasting Birth Control is jam-packed with surprising historical tidbits on ways the media has been used by the family planning movement since its inception. Manon Parry has done a major service to the family planning field by capturing the history of its early engagement with the media and the evolution of that engagement with all the pitfalls and challenges along the way."(Conscience: The News Journal of Catholic Opinion) "Parry reveals to us many important parts of the [birth control] story we have for too long overlooked."(Social History of Medicine) "[A] fine survey of the meditation of birth control." (Journal of American History)

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. Battling Silence and Censorship3. The Medium Shapes the Message4. "Most of the World's People Need Planned Parenthood"5. Soap Opera as Soap Box: Family Planning and the Telenovela6. Twenty-First-Century Sex: The Small ScreenNotesIndex