Author: CHEN, CONSTANCE M.
Title: "the Sex Side of Life" Mary Ware Dennett's Pioneering Battle for Birth Control and Sex Education
Description: New York City: The New Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 1565841328. Cover is black with silver lettering on spine. Pages are clean and tight; this is a NEW book. Pages are clean and tight. Illustrated with 19 b/w photos and some b/w drawings. "A suffragette, a leading figure of the American Arts and Crafts movement, a prominent peace activist, and a crusader for the right to obtain and distribute information about contraception, Mary Ware Dennett was also author of the sex-education pamphlet "The Sex Side of Life: An Explanation for Young People". Though the pamphlet--written in 1915 for Dennett's adolescents sons--ultimately became a respected, widely-read publication, public officials judged it obscene and brought Dennett to trial in a landmark censorship case...."; B&W Illustrations; 6 1/4 x 9 1/2; 374 pages; Cover has slight edge wear and bumping. DJ has some light edge wear, very slight crinkling across top of back.. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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