BIRTH CONTROL AND LIBEL: The Trial of Marie Stopes.
by [Stopes, Dr. Marie Carmichael] Box, Muriel, editor
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good in a good only dust jacket (edgewear to the dj)./good only
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About This Item
New York:: A. S. Barnes and Company,, (1968). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in a good only dust jacket (edgewear to the dj).. First US printing. A detailed look at the trial of Marie Stopes, who in 1921 opened the first birth control clinic in the British empire. When Dr. Sutherland accused her of taking advantage of the ignorance of the poor, she sued him for libel and defamation. Although she ultimately lost the third and final decision in the House of Lords, she succeeded in bringing the topic of birth control into the open. Includes the transcripts of the trials. Frontispiece portrait. 392 pp.
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- Title
- BIRTH CONTROL AND LIBEL: The Trial of Marie Stopes.
- Author
- [Stopes, Dr. Marie Carmichael] Box, Muriel, editor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in a good only dust jacket (edgewear to the dj).
- Jacket Condition
- good only
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- A. S. Barnes and Company,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1968)
- Keywords
- contraception, libel, sex education,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Women's Studies;
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