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"The Sex Side Of Life" Mary Ware Dennett's Pioneering Battle for Birth Control and Sex Education
by Chen, Constance M
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1565841328
- ISBN 13
- 9781565841321
- Seller
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Farmington Hills, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
New York City: The New Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. 1565841328 . Cover is black with silver lettering on spine. Pages are clean and tight; this is a NEW book. Pages are clean and tight. Illustrated with 19 b/w photos and some b/w drawings. "A suffragette, a leading figure of the American Arts and Crafts movement, a prominent peace activist, and a crusader for the right to obtain and distribute information about contraception, Mary Ware Dennett was also author of the sex-education pamphlet "The Sex Side of Life: An Explanation for Young People". Though the pamphlet--written in 1915 for Dennett's adolescents sons--ultimately became a respected, widely-read publication, public officials judged it obscene and brought Dennett to trial in a landmark censorship case...."; B&W Illustrations; 6 1/4 x 9 1/2; 374 pages; Cover has slight edge wear and bumping. DJ has some light edge wear, very slight crinkling across top of back. .
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- Bookseller
- Pegasusbooks.biz
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13057
- Title
- "The Sex Side Of Life" Mary Ware Dennett's Pioneering Battle for Birth Control and Sex Education
- Author
- Chen, Constance M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1565841328
- ISBN 13
- 9781565841321
- Publisher
- The New Press
- Place of Publication
- New York City
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- 1565841328, Mary Ware Dennett;, Suffragettes;, Women's Rights;, Social Activism;, Social History;, Cultural History;, American History, Women's History;;, Women;
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