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Marie Stopes: botany and birth control

2012· article· en· 372 citations· W1987672467 on OpenAlex· 10.1136/bmj.e7208

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Abstract

Marie Stopes was born at the end of the 19th century and grew up in the reign of Queen Victoria. Yet her pioneering work in birth control at the beginning of the 20th century marked the start of a sexual revolution that is still unfolding.⇑ Born in Edinburgh in 1880, Stopes was a distinguished botanist who became Britain’s youngest doctor of science in 1905, before she turned her attentions to the sex lives of humans rather than plants. Her own romantic disappointment led her to some startling discoveries. She married a Canadian botanist, Reginald …

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The record

Venue
BMJ
Topic
History of Science and Natural History
Field
Arts and Humanities
Canadian institutions
Funders
Keywords
ReignDisappointmentQueen (butterfly)Birth controlClassicsHistoryAncient historyBiologyDemographySociologyPoliticsZoologyLawPopulationPolitical sciencePsychologyFamily planning
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yes