biography
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Stopes, Marie (Charlotte Carmichael)
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pronunciation:
[stohps]
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| female
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| lived:
| (1880–1958)
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| biography:
| Pioneer advocate of birth control, suffragette, and palaeontologist, born in Edinburgh, EC Scotland, UK. She studied at London and Munich, and became the first female science lecturer at Manchester (1904). Alarmed at the unscientific way in which men and women embarked upon married life, she wrote a number of books on the subject, of which Married Love (1918), in which birth control is mentioned, caused a storm of controversy. She later founded the first birth control clinic, in London (1921). She wrote over 70 books, including Contraception: its Theory, History and Practice (1923) and Sex and Religion (1929). |
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