"Married Love", published in 1916, sold over one million copies and was translated into 13 languages. What made the book such a success was the author's passion as a woman combined with her cool dispassionate approach to sex. Her reputation rests on her radical and pioneering work in birth control. When she opened a birth control clinic in 1921, the Catholic Church mounted a furious campaign against her, and a Catholic doctor accused her of experimenting on the poor. Yet, even though she lost her case, she gained even greater popular support, and during the 1920s and 30s her name was constantly in the headlines. This biography looks at her life and views.
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Marie Stopes (1880-1958), a successful British botanist, was also a pioneer of birth control and sexual freedom. Rose (Modigliani), who obtained access to her subject's private papers, has written an objective and readable study of the life of the woman who, with the assistance of her second husband, Humphrey B. Roe, opened Great Britain's first birth control clinic in London in 1921. The sexual frustration Stopes had experienced during her first marriage inspired her to write and publish, after great difficulty, Married Love (1918), an explicit guide to sexual intercourse and, in the same year, Wise Parenthood, which clearly described available methods of contraception. Although her autocratic nature enabled Stopes to surmount opposition to her emancipated ideas and the controversies they provoked, as Rose observes, it sometimes estranged her from her family and friends. This is an important contribution to women's studies. Illustrations not seen by PW.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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June Rose is the author of several biographies, including Elizabeth Fry, the nineteenth-century prison reformer and Modigliani, the twentieth-century Italian painter and Susan Valadon: Mistress of Montmartre. She lives in Highgate, London.
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