Tuesday, August 24, 2010

BBC News - The secret life of Dr Marie Stopes

BBC News - The secret life of Dr Marie Stopes:

"Marie Stopes (1880-1958) shook the world. She wrote a best-selling sex-manual for women and was a controversial birth control pioneer.

When Stopes set up her first birth control clinic in 1923, all assumed that she had trained in medicine.

Yet, bizarrely, she was an expert on fossil plants and coal.

So how did this young palaeontologist come to transform Western society and become one of the most infamous women in history?"

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