Name/TitleWise Parenthood
EditionEleventh
MakerStopes, Marie
Maker RoleAuthor
About this objectSmall hardback publication with dark burgundy covers titled 'Wise Parenthood: The Treatise on Birth Control for Married People' by Marie Carmichael Stopes. Eleventh edition, revised and enlarged. An introduction by Arnold Bennett is followed by the Author's Preface to the Tenth Edition, dated Dec. 1922.
Note: Contains racist references
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, board and paper
MeasurementsH: 188 x W: 130 x D: 5 mm
Date Made1918-23
Period1910s-1920s
Place MadeEngland, London
PublisherG.P. Putnam's Sons Ltd
Publication Date1923
Publication PlaceEngland, London
Subject and Association Descriptionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Stopes:
Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (15 October 1880 – 2 October 1958) was a British author, palaeobotanist and campaigner for eugenics and women's rights. She made significant contributions to plant palaeontology and coal classification, and was the first female academic on the faculty of the University of Manchester. With her second husband, Humphrey Verdon Roe, Stopes founded the first birth control clinic in Britain, which bore her name for much of its 100 year history. Stopes edited the newsletter Birth Control News, which gave explicit practical advice. Her sex manual Married Love (1918) was controversial and influential, and brought the subject of birth control into wide public discourse. Stopes publicly opposed abortion, arguing that the prevention of conception was all that was needed, though her actions in private were at odds with her public pronouncements [continues].
Subject and Association Keywordspregnancy & motherhood
Subject and Association Keywordsfemale relationships - family
Subject and Association Keywordsracism, eugenics
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypeBook
Object numberGWL-2025-80-1
Spine LabelWISE PARENTHOOD ~ MARIE STOPES
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