post-suffrage feminism in the early twentieth century
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Debenham, Clare
- Publish Year
- 2014
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 34 2014 - B
- Thesaurus
- geboorteregeling, vrouwenkiesrecht, eerste feministische golf, feminisme, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 20e eeuw
- Description
- After the granting of the vote to women in 1918, the struggle for women's rights intensified with a nationwide campaign for the right to birth control. This campaign was met with a great deal of hostility: it threatened to overturn Victorian ideas about female sexuality, female empowerment and the traditional roles within the family. The most well known of the campaigners, scientist and early feminist Marie Stopes, opened clinics across England which fitted 'contraception caps' to women for free.