Love's creation : a novel by Marie Stopes, author of married love / Deryn Rees-Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rees-Jones, Deryn, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self-realization in women--Fiction.

Self-realization in women.

Women--Sexual behavior--Fiction.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (219 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Eastbourne, England : 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 centre of political controversy, not least in her battle with the Roman Catholic church. Love's Creation, republished here for the first time since 1928, offers fascinating insights into early twentieth-century women's writing, most notably Virginia Woolf's theories of female creativity / fulfilled female sexuality which is not under threat from motherhood; female economic and psychic freedom; and the social milieu of the time. It is an engaging and fast moving narrative with lively, well-drawn and unconventional characters. The novel poses important questions about women's choices and aspirations before, during and after marriage. Not surprisingly it also engages in still contemporary and vital debates about the relationship between the sciences and the arts, and theories of evolution.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

The Novel

Publisher's Note

1 Some Londoners

2 The Turning Wheel

3 Complexity

4 The Invasion

5 Tenderness Touches Hell

6 A Modern Idyll

7 "What is Love"

8 Welcome Death

9 Extinct Monsters

10 The Endowed Chair

11 A Wedding and Love

12 The Knock-out

13 The Widower

14 The Tropic Skies

15 Midnight in Penang

16 Ferine Heart Beats

17 Betrothal

18 The Chatelaine

19 Bewildering Adoration

20 The Artist Fellow

21 Tears in Love

22 Miscellaneous Reflections

23 The Niche Doesn't Fit

24 The Greater Unit

25 A Chance Revelation

26 Fire and Ice

27 The Hero's Passion

28 Justice

29 A Tumble in The Snow

30 The Sun Shines Out

Notes To The Novel.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-83764-198-6

OCLC:

1382696717