Title:
Birth control and the rights of women : post-suffrage feminism in the early twentieth century / Clare Debenham.
Author:
Debenham, Clare.
Publication Information:
London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2014.
Call Number:
HQ766.5 .G7 D37 2014
Abstract:
Featuring new archival material in the form of memoirs, personal papers, and press cuttings, examines the British campaign for the right to birth control that followed granting the vote to women in 1919.
ISBN:
9781780764351
Series:
International library of cultural studies ; 31
International library of cultural studies ; 31.
Physical Description:
ix, 287 p. ; 23 cm.
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Contents:
Rediscovering the post-suffrage birth control campaign -- The emergence of the birth control movement -- Birth control--a feminist issue? -- Anatomy of the birth control clinics -- Challenging the opposition -- Shifting ideologies : birth controllers, feminists, the Malthusian League and Eugenics Society -- Working the political parties -- The end of the campaign? -- Appendix : collective biography of birth control activists.
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