Marie Stopes' sexual revolution and the birth control movement / Clare Debenham.

  • Debenham, Clare
Date:
[2018]
  • Books

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Description

This book examines the life, work and contraversial achievements of Marie Stopes, author and pioneer of the birth control movement in the interwar period. As the centenary of the ground-breaking publication of Married Love approaches, this study traces and reassesses Marie's remarkable achievements, considering the literary, scientific and political themes of her life's work.--Publisher's description.

Publication/Creation

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

Physical description

xvi, 164 pages : black and white illustrations ; 22 cm.

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-157) and index.

Contents

The challenge of Marie Stopes -- Family values -- Passionate about palaeobotany -- From Married love to Enduring passion -- Birth control : the start of Marie Stopes' campaign -- The growth of the constructive birth control clinics -- Marie and her correspondents -- Battles with doctors, clergy and politicians -- Marie Stopes as a maverick eugenicist.

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    History of Medicine
    BZP (Stopes)
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  • 3319716638
  • 9783319716633