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Marie Stopes' Sexual Revolution and the Birth Control Movement


Marie Stopes' Sexual Revolution and the Birth Control Movement



von: Clare Debenham

58,84 €

Verlag: Palgrave Pivot
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 06.03.2018
ISBN/EAN: 9783319716640
Sprache: englisch

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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 <i>Married Love</i> 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 <i>Married Love</i>. Utilising extensive unpublished archive research, biographies, letters, and interviews with her friends and relatives, Debenham demonstrates that Stopes's work on sexual relationships has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.&nbsp;<div><br></div><div><br></div>
1. The challenge of Marie Stopes.- 2. Family values.- 3. Passionate about palaeobotany.- 4.&nbsp; <i>From Married Love to Enduring Passion.-&nbsp;</i>5.<i> </i>Birth Control: The Start of Marie Stopes’ Campaign.-&nbsp; 6. The Growth of the Constructive Birth Control Clinics.- 7. Marie and Her Correspondents.- 8. Battles with Doctors, Clergy and Politicians.- 9. Marie Stopes as a Maverick Eugenicist.- 10.&nbsp;Epilogue.- <br>
Clare Debenham is&nbsp;Honorary Research Associate at the University of Manchester, UK. Since the 1970s she has been an active campaigner on women’s issues, and her previous publications include <i>Birth Control and the Rights of Women: Post-Suffrage Feminism in the Twentieth Century</i> (2014).<div><br></div>
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&nbsp;<i>Married Love</i>&nbsp;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&nbsp;<i>Married Love</i>. 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 birthcontrol clinic.&nbsp;<div><br></div>
Examines Marie Stope's scientific, literary and social achievements and legacy in Britain Demonstrates that Marie Stopes was one of the most important female figures of the twentieth century Utilises extensive archival materials, including personal correspondence and interviews with Stopes’s friends and relatives

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