The Sex Side of Life: Mary Ware Dennett's Pioneering Battle for Birth Control and Sex Education

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 country's history." from dj flap. "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 Explantaion for Young People'." Though the pamphlet --- written in 1913 for Dennett's adolescent sons -- ultimately became a respected, widely-read publication, public officials judged it obscene and brought Dennett to trial in a landmark censorship case.".