Birth control and the rights of women : post-suffrage feminism in the early twentieth century / Clare Debenham.

By: Debenham, ClareMaterial type: TextTextSeries: International library of cultural studies: 31.Publisher: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2014Description: ix, 287 p. ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781780764351; 1780764359Subject(s): Contraception -- history | Women's Rights -- history | Feminism -- history | History, 20th Century | Great Britain | Birth control -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Contraception -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Feminism -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Birth control | Contraception | Feminism | Great Britain | 1900-1999Genre/Form: History.DDC classification: 363.9/609410904 LOC classification: HQ766 | .D37 2014
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.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-283) and index.

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.

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.

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