American Decades
Mary Ware Dennett and Birth Control
Letter to the Members of the Senate and House of Representatives; Letter to the Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee
Letters
By: Mary Ware Dennett
Date: February 1923
Source: Dennett, Mary Ware. Mary Ware Dennett to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, February 1923; Mary Ware Dennett to the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, February 1923. In Birth Control Laws: Shall We Keep Them Change Them or Abolish Them. New York: Grafton Press, 1926, 110, 116–117.
About the Author: Mary Ware Dennett (1872–1947) was a pioneering advocate of birth control, family planning, and sex education. A tireless crusader for her beliefs, she helped found the National Birth Control League, served as director of the Voluntary Parenthood League, and wrote the famous book The Sex Side of Life.
Introduction
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1920's Lifestyles and Social Trends Primary Sources
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- "'These Wild Young People': By One Of Them"
- Statement of Mr. William Joseph Simmons
- "Flapper Americana Novissima"
- Prohibition's Supporters and Detractors
- Babbitt
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- "Into the Land of Talk"
- "Fools and Their Money"
- Discontinuing the Model T Ford
- This Smoking World
- Men of Destiny
- "The Next Revolution"
- "The Child Stylites of Baltimore"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
