Marie Stopes Sexual Revolution And The Birth Control Movement

Author : Clare Debenham
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319716646
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marie Stopes’ Sexual Revolution and the Birth Control Movement written by Clare Debenham and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Clare Debenham analyses how Stope’s personal life led her to turn away from palaeobotany to concentrate on transforming the country’s sexual relationships by writing Married Love. Utilising extensive unpublished archive research, biographies, letters, and interviews with her friends and relatives, Debenham demonstrates that Stopes's work on sexual relationships has overshadowed her considerable achievements including her scientific career as a paleaobotantist, her literary success in the interwar period, and her work, with help from suffragists, in establishing the first British birth control clinic.

Author : June Rose
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780752442006
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marie Stopes and the Sexual Revolution written by June Rose and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to throw light on the public and personal life of the fascinating and formidable Marie Stopes

Author : Patricia Walsh Coates
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Margaret Sanger and the Origin of the Birth Control Movement, 1910-1930 written by Patricia Walsh Coates and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the early writing and relationships of activist Margaret Sanger by f()cusing on the feminist aspect of the birth control movement pertaining to sexual autonomy for women. Sanger's distinctive philosophy separated her early advocacy for biJ1h control from other women's movements. This work contributes to the existing body ofliterature on Sanger by bringing to the forefront both the American and transatlantic social and philosophical influences present in the birth control and feminist debate.

Author : Claire L. Jones
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526136309
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The business of birth control written by Claire L. Jones and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The business of birth control is the first book-length study to examine contraceptives as commodities in Britain before the pill. Drawing on new archives and neglected promotional and commercial material, the book demonstrates how hundreds of companies transformed condoms and rubber and chemical pessaries into consumer goods that became widely available via discreet mail order catalogues, newspapers, birth control clinics, chemists’ shops and vending machines in an era when older and more reserved ways of thinking about sex jostled uncomfortably with modern and more open attitudes. The book outlines the impact of contraceptive commodification on consumers, but also demonstrates how closely the contraceptive industry was intertwined with the medical profession and the birth control movement, who sought authority in birth control knowledge at a time when sexual knowledge and who had access to it was contested.

Author : Linda Gordon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Woman's Body, Woman's Right written by Linda Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The politics of reproduction : The prohibition on birth control -- The folklore of birth control -- The criminals -- Prudent sex: neo-Malthusianism and perfectionism. Toward women's power : Voluntary motherhood: the beginnings of the birth-control movement -- Social purity and eugenics -- Race suicide -- Continence or indulgence: the doctors and the "sexual revolution" -- Birth control and social revolution. From women's rights to family planning : The professionalization of birth control -- The Depression -- Planned parenthood -- A note on population control -- Reproductive rights in the 1970s: birth control in the era of the Women's Liberation Movement -- Birth control in the era of conservatism and runaway technology: the 1980s -- Sexuality, feminism, and birth control today

Author : Clare Debenham
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
ISBN 13 : 9781780764351
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Birth Control and the Rights of Women written by Clare Debenham and published by I.B. Tauris. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the granting of the vote to women in 1918, the struggle for women's rights intensified with a nationwide campaign for the right to birth control. This campaign was met with a great deal of hostility; it threatened to overturn Victorian ideas about female sexuality, female empowerment and the traditional roles within the family. The most well known of the campaigners, scientist and early feminist Marie Stopes, opened clinics across England which fitted 'contraception caps' to women for free. The first history of this grassroots social movement, Birth Control and the Rights of Women offers a window into the social and cultural history of the period, and features new archival material in the forms of memoirs, personal papers and press cuttings. This is an essential contribution to the influential field of women's history and a vital addition to the history of feminism.

Author : Caroline Rusterholz
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526156555
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's medicine written by Caroline Rusterholz and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Women’s medicine highlights British female doctors’ key contribution to the production and circulation of scientific knowledge around contraception, family planning and sexual disorders between 1920–70. It argues that women doctors were pivotal in developing a holistic approach to family planning and transmitting it across borders, playing a more prominent role in shaping scientific and medical knowledge than previously acknowledged. Illuminating women doctors’ agency in the male-dominated field of medicine, this book reveals their practical engagement with birth control and later family planning clinics in Britain, their participation in the development of the international movement and their influence on French doctors. Drawing on a wide range of archived and published medical materials, Rusterholz sheds light on the strategies British female doctors used and the alliances they made to put forward their medical agenda and position themselves as experts and leaders.

Author : Ann Farmer
Publisher : Saint Austin Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prophets & Priests written by Ann Farmer and published by Saint Austin Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the movement for birth control began in the face of extreme hostility, even from the people it sought to help. Yet today the birth control movement has for a large number of people, an indisputed and unassailable position in society as the prerequisite for social justice and well being. 'Prophets and Priests' relates how the pioneers of birth control worked with the zeal of religious reformers to bring about this extraordinary change of opinion and how they eventually achieved remarkable success. Above all, the author explains the driving motivation of the people involved, starting with the Neo-Malthusians, William Bradlaugh and Annie Bessant, through the opinions of and activities of Margaret Sanger and Marie Stopes to modern birth control activists. The author describes their attitude towards the poor and their shifting relationship with the feminists, the movements for social justice and the government. Lastly this book gives a faithful account of the social impact of birth control over the last thirty years.

Author : Kate Fisher
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Birth Control, Sex, and Marriage in Britain 1918-1960 written by Kate Fisher and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006-07-13 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Author : Sandra Trudgen Dawson
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 179360827X
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mothers, Midwives, and Reproductive Labor in Interwar and Wartime Britain written by Sandra Trudgen Dawson and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2024 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Safe childbirth and midwifery occupied medical professional and government officials throughout the interwar and war years, but economic constraints and war preparation took precedence. Mothers and midwives made childbirth and professional decisions based on their desires and needs rather than at the direction of the local and central government"--