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This is a biography of Mary Ware Dennett, who was an educator in sex education and the author of the widely distributed pamphlet, The Sex Side of Life. Dennett was a pioneer in sex education, who battled with Congress in her fight against the censorship law that banned the dissemination of any information about human sexuality. So threatening was Dennett's message to those who would limit a woman's knowledge of contraception, that the Post Office used exaggerated obscenity charges to frame Dennett in a trial that became a landmark case in obscenity law. Dennett was also executive secretary of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and founding organizer of the National Birth Control League, and she held key positions in the American Union Against Militarism.

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  • Title The Sex Side of Life: The Story of Mary Ware Dennett
  • Author Chen, Constance
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 374
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1996
  • ISBN 9781565841321
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: New Press, 1996. 1st Edition 1st Printing ; full # line. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. **First Printing **(full # line) / Whistle-clean inside and out, almost new and unmarked with a fine dj. Price intact of course. "This book is a wake-u call for women and men to know their history and finish what was begun well over one hundred years ago. Chen brings alive Mary Ware Dennett and the fascinating story of her time and reminds us that the work on sex education and reproductive rights for women, which Dennett and her colleagues so bravely and forthrightly began at the turn of the century, remains unfinished." -- Judith H. LaRosa, PhD., RN, FAAN, former Deputy Director. Office of Research on Women's Health, National Institure of Health "With the publication of this biography, Dennett will emerge from the footnotes of history to take her place with Margaret Sanger, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton as one pof the mosst influential women in this… Read More
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