Birth Control and the Rights of Women: Post-Suffrage Feminism in the Early Twentieth Century, by Clare Debenham

June 20, 2014

(The Times Higher Education) – Was birth control a feminist issue? For anyone who reads this book, the conclusion will be a resounding yes. But social movements are complex. The birth control campaign included socialists, neo-Malthusians and eugenicists, many of whom were also feminists. Clare Debenham’s book includes an appendix featuring an extensive Collective Biography of Birth Control Activists (all women), in which we read that many, if not all, were feminist and had been suffragists or suffragettes