The Women's Birth Control Movement
During the 1920s the United States had experienced changes within the traditional value system that had become the norm for the country. The suffrage of women was coming to a head as women were granted rights and freedoms that were normally denied in the male driven society. After 1920 the women’s right movement began to transform the mob mentality of taking into the respectable ideas that we see today. One of the rights that women gained was the right to choose to use birth control.
In a country that was founded on religious principles, birth control was not discussed outside of the privacy of the bedroom. Even in the bedroom the husband or partner made the decision to utilize the few forms of birth control that were available.
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Goldman thought that the law that banned women access to birth control information was suggestive of political, general social, economic unfairness, and also always maintained that the issues were part of a broader struggle.
Another reformer, Mary Ware Dennett, was a pioneer in the battle for Birth Control and sex education. Mary was an educator in sex instruction and the author of several distributed pamphlets. Essentially, she had become involved in the change in history like the other birth control activists. Although, she led a group that took over and re-structured Margaret Sanger’s Birth Control movement. The works of the movement or league was conveyed from protest to public education and politicization for the cancel of preventive legislation.
Additionally, she expressed and discussed several methods to the birth control case. She wrote the “Birth Control Laws”, a clear study of the legal circumstances and the arguments for free distribution of information among the women. She talks in her book about issues of sex as a normal and joyful part of life, which had been published through different publishers. Meanwhile, in her struggle to make birth control information accessible to all women, her books spread in pamphlet form. Certainly, her birth control work had a huge impact on the successes of the birth control movement at this time in
In a country that was founded on religious principles, birth control was not discussed outside of the privacy of the bedroom. Even in the bedroom the husband or partner made the decision to utilize the few forms of birth control that were available.
During …show more content…
Goldman thought that the law that banned women access to birth control information was suggestive of political, general social, economic unfairness, and also always maintained that the issues were part of a broader struggle.
Another reformer, Mary Ware Dennett, was a pioneer in the battle for Birth Control and sex education. Mary was an educator in sex instruction and the author of several distributed pamphlets. Essentially, she had become involved in the change in history like the other birth control activists. Although, she led a group that took over and re-structured Margaret Sanger’s Birth Control movement. The works of the movement or league was conveyed from protest to public education and politicization for the cancel of preventive legislation.
Additionally, she expressed and discussed several methods to the birth control case. She wrote the “Birth Control Laws”, a clear study of the legal circumstances and the arguments for free distribution of information among the women. She talks in her book about issues of sex as a normal and joyful part of life, which had been published through different publishers. Meanwhile, in her struggle to make birth control information accessible to all women, her books spread in pamphlet form. Certainly, her birth control work had a huge impact on the successes of the birth control movement at this time in