TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chen,Constance M.
TI  - "The sex side of life": Mary Ware Dennett's pioneering battle for birth control and sex education 
SN  - 1565841328 (HC)
AV  - HQ764.D46 C46 1996
U1  - 613.9/07 20
PY  - 1996///
CY  - New York
PB  - New Press
KW  - Dennett, Mary Ware,
KW  - Birth control
KW  - United States
KW  - Sex educators
KW  - Biography
KW  - Women social reformers
KW  - Sex instruction
KW  - Sex Education
KW  - Women
KW  - Family Planning Services
KW  - Social Change
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-[368]) and index
N2  - "Constance M. Chen's "The Sex Side of Life": Mary Ware Dennett's Pioneering Battle for Birth Control and Sex Education brings to light the life and achievements of an extraordinary woman. With the publication of this biography, Dennett will emerge from the footnotes of history to take her place with Margaret Sanger, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton as one of the most influential women in this country's history." "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 adolescent sons - ultimately became a respected, widely-read publication, public officials judged it obscene and brought Dennett to trial in a landmark censorship case." "During her remarkable career, Dennett battled both reluctant congressmen and others who should have been her allies - including Margaret Sanger, who fought Dennett's attempts to make birth control information accessible to all, rich and poor, female and male."--BOOK JACKET
UR  - http://www.archive.org/details/thesexsideoflife00chen
UR  - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL21439854M
ER  -