Love's creation / a novel by Marie Stopes ; with a contextual essay by Deryn Rees-Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stopes, Marie Carmichael, 1880-1958.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Sexual behavior--Fiction.

Women.

Women--Sexual behavior.

Self-realization in women--Fiction.

Self-realization in women.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 189 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Brighton ; Portland, Or. : Sussex Academic Press, 2012.

Summary:

Marie Stopes' work in the area of sexual health and contraception has left a lasting legacy, and she is widely acknowledged as one of the most significant figures of the twentieth century. Her Married Love: A New Contribution to the Solution of Sex Difficulties was first published in 1918, translated into thirteen languages and sold over a million copies. Stopes also ardently pursued her enthusiasm for literature throughout her life, writing novels, plays and poetry. Her novel Love's Creation, published in 1928, the year women obtained the vote, is a working through of the debates which she addressed both in her personal and public life: sexual relations, the relationship between the arts and sciences, the quest for female sexual fulfillment. Marie Stopes' campaigning on behalf of a more open attitude to women's sexuality, equality in marriage, and sexual health and contraception, and her opening of the first free birth control clinic in the British Empire in 1921, saw her at the centr

ISBN:

1845194195

9781845194192

OCLC:

794603887

Publisher Number:

99950200017