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First edition, first printing, of psychologist and suffragist Mary Ware Dennett's Birth Control Laws of 1926, a significant contribution to the US birth control debate.
First edition, first printing, of psychologist and suffragist Mary Ware Dennett's Birth Control Laws of 1926, a significant contribution to the US birth control debate.
First edition, first printing, of psychologist and suffragist Mary Ware Dennett's Birth Control Laws of 1926, a significant contribution to the US birth control debate.
First edition, first printing, of psychologist and suffragist Mary Ware Dennett's Birth Control Laws of 1926, a significant contribution to the US birth control debate.

DENNETT, Mary Ware.

Birth Control Laws. Shall we keep them, change them, or abolish them?

New York, Frederick H. Hitchcock, The Grafton Press, 1926.

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First edition, first printing, of this significant contribution to the US birth control debate.

Mary Ware Dennett (1872-1947) was a psychologist and suffragist who in 1919 wrote a sex education pamphlet for teenagers titled The Sex Side of Life. It was printed in a medical journal and then self-published and distributed via the YMCA/YWCA and state health agencies. 'The U.S. Postal Service declared it was obscene material, had her arrested, and took her to court in a highly publicised case. The ruling was against her, but she became a popular and dedicated writer and speaker for socialist causes' (Ogilvie, Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science, p. 347).

First edition, first printing; 8vo; title to appendix II printed in red and black on thinner paper, spotting to the edges of the text block and early and late leaves; original blue cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt, spine darkened, some light spots to the cloth, gilt titles dulled, a very good copy in the rubbed and tanned jacket with spotting and some small chips and nicks; 309pp.

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