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Women Humantiarians 4 |
Wednesday 13 March 2002 |
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In 1789, Thomas Malthus published his famous 'Essay on the Principal of Population' and the argument for birth control as a social policy began.
It was left to female campaigners to take up the cause of a woman's right to control her own fertility. The most famous of these is of course Marie Stopes, who opened her pioneering clinic in 1921. But she was not the first.
Sybil Oldfield, the author of Women Humanitarians, and Helen Rappaport, who wrote the Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers, look at those, like Annie Besant, who fought for birth control.
Helen Rappaport is the author of: Encyclopaedia of Women Social Reformers, published by ABC-CLIO, ISBN 1-57607-101-4
Sybil Oldfield is the author of: Women Humanitarians, A Biographical Dictionary of British Women Active between 1900 and 150, published by Continuum, ISBN 0 8264 4962 X
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