The Suffragists Who Opposed Birth Control

The Suffragists Who Opposed Birth Control

You would think suffragists, those corset-clad beacons of girl power, would support women’s right to have sex for pleasure. Mainstream early suffragists did not advocate for contraception the way we know it today. The reason says much about the bleak status of women in the world at the time—as well as the careful strategy behind the fight for the Nineteenth Amendment.