Birth Control Laws. Shall We Keep Them Change Them or Abolish Them.
New York: Frederick H. Hitchcock, 1926. First edition. One black and white text illustration + one double page plate in appendix in black and red. With fifteen appendices. Very minor shelfwear to head and foot of spine. In publisher’s dust jacket, with slight tear to front cover fiit, Very mild chipping at tips and along foot. Very faint dust streak to fron )above "l" in "Control" and "a" in Laaws") Flaps of jacket sound. Text is clean and bright, and binding is strong. A very good or better copy in an excellent dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine (somewhat dulled). Octavo. x, 309 pp. Item #17970
“Mary Ware Dennett has the distinction of being the one who first brought the Birth Control question to congress. She has been characterized as the ‘brainiest woman in the birth control movement.’ She inspired and helped frame the Cummins-Vaile Bill to remove the subject from the ‘obscenity’ statutes. The Bill had two Hearings, and was reported out by the Senate Judiciary Sub-Committee at the close of the Sixty-Eighth Congress. ‘Birth Control Laws’ was written after six successive years of lobbying in Washington. Mrs. Dennett’s attitude toward the subject is not that of a reformer with a single track mind, but rather with an all-around appreciation of the factors that make life decent, dignified, and beautiful. Her wide and varied experience in social welfare activities and her work as and [sic] artist is a combination that humanizes her handling of most subjects, and this one in particular,” (inside front flap of d.j.”).
“The book tells the story of how Comstock gave us the laws we have, and gives us a lucid analysis of all the propositions thus far made for correcting Comstock’s blunder. It is a human and untechnical discussion of what to do and how to do it sensibly,” (dust jacket front cover).
Price: $150.00