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Marie Stopes

Born

in Edinburgh, Scotland

October 15, 1880

Died

October 02, 1958

Website

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Stopes

Genre

Medicine

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Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes was a British author, palaeobotanist, academic, campaigner for women's rights and pioneer in the field of birth control. Her contributions to plant palaeontology and coal classification were significant, and she was the first female academic on the faculty of the University of Manchester. With her second husband Humphrey Verdon Roe she founded the first birth control clinic in Britain. Stopes edited the newsletter Birth Control News which gave explicit practical advice. Her sex manual Married Love was controversial and influential: it brought the subject of birth control into wide public discourse. She was never in favour of abortion, arguing that preventing conception was all that was needed. ...more

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Average rating: 3.36 · 284 ratings · 53 reviews · 68 distinct works • Similar authors

	Married Love by Marie Stopes, Ross McKibbin (Editor) 3.36 avg rating — 234 ratings — published 1918 — 100 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A journal from Japan really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2003 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Radiant motherhood: a book for those who are creating the future 2.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1920 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wise Parenthood: A Treatise on Birth Control or Contraception liked it 3.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2006 — 53 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Plays of Old Japan: The 'Nō' by Marie Stopes (Translator), Joji Sakurai (Translator) 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1913 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Contraception: Theory, History and Practice liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1923 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Birth Control and Other Writings by Marie Stopes, Lesley A. Hall (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Study of Plant Life really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2015 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ancient Plants 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Roman Catholic Methods of Birth Control 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“From the body of the loved one's simple, sweetly colored flesh, which our animal instincts urge us to desire, there springs not only the wonder of a new bodily life, but also the enlargement of the horizon of human sympathy and the glow of spiritual understanding which one could never have attained alone.”
― Marie Stopes, Married Love

tags: 1910s, sex

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