Pioneers of Birth Control in England and America 1919

Victor Robinson

New York : Voluntary Parenthood League, 1919

[Early Contraception / Birth Control Movement publication] Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear.  Clean, unmarked pages. 107 pages, 8 leaves of plates : portraits.Contents:From Malthus to Mill --America's first contribution --Bradlaugh's challenge --The Malthusian League --The American propagandists --Progress in the professions --Woman's share.  

  In 1925 the Voluntary Parenthood League merged with the American Birth Control League.  The founder, Mary Ware Dennett, was famously convicted for "mailing obscene matter" under the Comstock Act. Dennett had written "The Sex Side of Life," a for her two adolescent sons and the work was mailed to other sex educators.  She worked tireless for the repeal of anti-contraception legislation for much of her life.