Marie Stopes’ Sexual Revolution and the Birth Control Movement

Clare Debenham

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English

Birkhauser Verlag AG
15 March 2018

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 Utilising extensive unpublished archive research, biographies, letters, and interviews with her friends and relatives, Debenham demonstrates that Stopes's work on sexual relationships has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.

By: Clare Debenham
Imprint: Birkhauser Verlag AG
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: 1st ed. 2018
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
Weight: 3.392kg
ISBN: 9783319716633
ISBN 10: 3319716638
Pages: 164
Publication Date: 15 March 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. The challenge of Marie Stopes.- 2. Family values.- 3. Passionate about palaeobotany.- 4. From Married Love to Enduring Passion.- 5. Birth Control: The Start of Marie Stopes’ Campaign.- 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. Epilogue.-

Clare Debenham is 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 Birth Control and the Rights of Women: Post-Suffrage Feminism in the Twentieth Century (2014).