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Birth Control and the Rights of Women: Post-Suffrage Feminism in the Early Twentieth Century

Birth Control and the Rights of Women: Post-Suffrage Feminism in the Early Twentieth Century

Debenham, Clare

Paperback

Series: International Library of Cultural Studies

General Gender StudiesGeneral SociologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1788312848
ISBN13: 9781788312844
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: May 30 2018
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
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, After the Suffragettes 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.

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