Marie Stopes - Wikipedia
WEBMarie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (15 October 1880 – 2 October 1958) was a British author, palaeobotanist and campaigner for eugenics and women's rights. She made significant contributions to plant paleontology and coal classification, and was the first female academic on the faculty of the University of Manchester.
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Marie Stopes | British Paleobotanist & Birth Control Pioneer
WEBApr 10, 2024 · Marie Stopes (born October 15, 1880, Edinburgh, Scotland—died October 2, 1958, near Dorking, Surrey, England) was an advocate of birth control who, in 1921, founded the United Kingdom’s first instructional clinic for contraception. Although her clinical work, writings, and speeches evoked violent opposition, especially from Roman …
Beginners Guide to Stope Mining | An Underground Miner
WEBDec 13, 2022 · Stoping is a method of extracting ore from an underground mine that leaves behind an open space called a stope. This guide outlines the important purpose a stope serves in underground mining and the methods for creating and utilizing them.
Married Love: the 1918 book by Marie Stopes that helped launch …
WEBMar 23, 2018 · Up until 1918, Stopes’s most popular book had been a study of ancient plant life. Her academic publishers refused to publish Married Love because it was seen as too controversial.
The secret life of Dr Marie Stopes - BBC News
WEBAug 23, 2010 · Marie Stopes (1880-1958) shook the world. She wrote a best-selling sex-manual for women and was a controversial birth control pioneer. On a darker note, she also corresponded with Hitler and ...
BBC - History - Historic Figures: Marie Stopes (1880 - 1958)
WEBy. z. Marie Stopes, 1918 © Stopes was a campaigner for women's rights and a pioneer in the field of family planning. Marie Stopes was born on 15 October 1880 in Edinburgh to an archaeologist ...
Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes | Encyclopedia.com
WEBMarie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes. 1880-1958. British Social Reformer, Botanist, and Writer. In 1921 Marie Stopes opened the first birth control clinic in Great Britain. She is best known for her crusade to gain reproductive freedom for women, but that was only a …
Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (1880-1958) - The Embryo …
WEBJul 10, 2008 · A paleobotanist best known for her social activism in the area of sexuality, Stopes was a pioneer in the fight to gain sexual equality for women. Her activism took many forms including writing books and pamphlets, giving public appearances, serving on panels, and, most famously, co-founding the first birth control clinic in the United Kingdom.
Marie Stopes – Women Film Pioneers Project - Columbia University
WEBMarie Stopes, scientist, birth control activist, and author, was born in Scotland and moved to London in her teens. Her father was an architect and her mother a Shakespeare scholar and campaigner for women’s education.
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