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Rea, Ann - From “Free Love” to Married Love: Gender Politics, Marie Stopes, and Middlebrow Fiction by Women in the Early Nineteen Twenties

Keywords:

feminism | Marie Stopes | Married Love | middlebrow fiction | post-war culture

ISFWWS-Keywords:

Britain | Great Britain | Literature | Society | Legacy | Gender | Culture | Politics

Abstract:

This chapter considers the role that Marie Stopes played in influencing vast numbers of women to turn away from the radical alternatives, towards what was known as 'New Feminism' ultimately a conservative back…