Marie Carmichael Stopes — birth control advocate, and paleobotanist
- Creator(s):
- Stopes, Marie Carmichael
- Title:
- Contraception (Birth Control) Its Theory, History and Practice
- Publication/Origin:
- London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, 1923
- Description:
- In 1905, at age twenty-five, Marie Stopes became the youngest Doctor of Science in Britain while pursuing her first career as a paleobotanist. She was also a life-long women’s rights activist. Her unhappy and unconsummated first marriage led her to write about sexuality and birth control. She met Margaret Sanger in 1915 during Sanger’s self-exile in London and the two discussed birth control extensively. It became her passion. She opened the Mothers Clinic in London with her second husband in 1921 and over time opened clinics in major cities across Great Britain.
- Citation:
- Stopes, Marie Carmichael, Contraception (Birth Control) Its Theory, History and Practice, London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, 1923, Lisa Unger Baskin Collection, Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. Accessed April 24, 2024, https://exhibits.library.duke.edu/exhibits/show/baskin/item/4277