Radiant Motherhood: A Book for Those Who, Are Creating the Future

by Marie Stopes

Excerpt from Radiant Motherhood: A Book for Those Who, Are Creating the Future

It is commonly said that most women marry for Children, and not out of a personal love, and there is more truth in this saying than is good for the race. To-day, alas, many women cannot find the perfect and sensitive mate their' hearts' desire and they hope in any marriage to get Children which will mitigate the conse quent loneliness of their lives. Sometimes they may, to some extent, succeed, but far less often than they imagine, for that strange and still but little understood force heredity steps in, and the son of the tolerated father may grow infinitely more like his physical father than he is like the dear delight his mother dreamed he might be.

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249 pages, Hardcover

First published August 9, 1920

About the author

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.

Reviews

[lucy snow · Rating 3 out of 5]

another interesting one from marie stopes.

nice to hear her talks about the practicalities of pregnancy and birth, preparing women for something that they were told so little about - "to allow a young firl or woman to enter upon these months of trial without making clear to her what she has to face, is cruel indeed".

the eugenics sections at the end was a lot less favourable.

[Hafen · Rating 1 out of 5]

Can't remember being so revolted reading a work written at the turn of the century. Utterly horrifying.