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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: International library of cultural studies ; 31.Publisher: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: ix, 287 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1780764359
  • 9781780764351
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.9609410904 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ766.5.G7 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 (pages 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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