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Marie Stopes’ Sexual Revolution and the Birth Control Movement

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  • © 2018

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Authors:
  1. Clare Debenham

    1. University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

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  • 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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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. The Challenge of Marie Stopes

    • Clare Debenham
    Pages 1-17

  3. Family Values

    • Clare Debenham
    Pages 19-33

  4. Passionate About Palaeobotany

    • Clare Debenham
    Pages 35-58

  5. From Married Love to Enduring Passion

    • Clare Debenham
    Pages 59-74

  6. Birth Control: The Start of Marie Stopes’ Campaign

    • Clare Debenham
    Pages 75-85

  7. The Growth of the Constructive Birth Control Clinics

    • Clare Debenham
    Pages 87-99

  8. Marie and Her Correspondents

    • Clare Debenham
    Pages 101-107

  9. Battles with Doctors, Clergy and Politicians

    • Clare Debenham
    Pages 109-119

  10. Marie Stopes as a Maverick Eugenicist

    • Clare Debenham
    Pages 121-131

  11. Epilogue

    • Clare Debenham
    Pages 133-141

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 143-164
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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 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 Utilising extensive unpublished archive research, biographies, letters, and interviews with her friends and relatives, Debenham demonstrates that Stopes's work on sexual relationships has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. 



Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

    Clare Debenham

About the author

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).

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