BIRTH CONTROL IN BRITAIN DURING THE INTERWAR YEARS: Evidence From the Stopes Correspondence

Responding to the call by historical demographers for "more empirical studies at the micro-level" of motives for using birth control, a single archival source—letters written to Marie Stopes, a major English advocate of contraception—are used to examine the contraceptive experiences and se...

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Published in:Journal of family history 1988-01, Vol.13 (1), p.329-345
Main Author: Davey, Claire
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Contraception - history
Family Planning Services - history
History of medicine
History, Modern 1601
Manuscripts as Topic - history
Stopes
United Kingdom
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Summary:Responding to the call by historical demographers for "more empirical studies at the micro-level" of motives for using birth control, a single archival source—letters written to Marie Stopes, a major English advocate of contraception—are used to examine the contraceptive experiences and sexual problems of individual men and women during the later phase of the demographic transition in England (1918-1939). Various statistical assessments reveal that methods and motives for contraception were influenced by the correspondents' sex and social standing.
ISSN:0363-1990
1552-5473
DOI:10.1177/036319908801300120