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Married Love or Love in Marriage (1918) is a book on reproductive health by Marie Stopes. Banned in the US and scorned by the British establishment, Married Love or Love in Marriage was controversial for its openness regarding sex and the use of contraceptives between husbands and wives. While relatively conservative by today¿s standards, the pioneering work was an essential, bestselling book that guided generations of men and woman on how to nurture happy, healthy sexual relationships without increasing the stresses of motherhood and everyday life. "More than ever to-day are happy homes needed. It is my hope that this book may serve the State by adding to their number. Its object is to increase the joys of marriage, and to show how much sorrow may be avoided." Working with this goal in mind, Marie Stopes set out to rewrite the rulebook on sexual relationships between married men and women. Published the same year that she opened the first birth control clinic in the United Kingdom, Married Love or Love in Marriage pursued the thesis that desire and happiness could be nurtured within the home between a husband and wife by educating men and women on the use of contraceptives. An immediate bestseller, Stopes¿ work marked a seismic shift in discourse on women¿s reproductive health, paving the way for many of the reforms and attitudes some take for granted today. Risking her reputation and leaving behind a successful career in paleobotany, Stopes dedicated herself to the rights of women in England and around the world, for whom the burden of motherhood often proved not only limiting, but detrimental to their physical and mental health. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Marie Stopes¿ Married Love or Love in Marriage is a classic of British scientific literature reimagined for modern readers.

Conquest: Or, A Piece of Jade (1917) is a drama in three acts by Marie Stopes. Although Stopes is more widely known as the author of Married Love or Love in Marriage, a bestselling work on contraception that guided generations of men and woman on how to nurture happy, healthy sexual relationships, she was also a gifted playwright and poet. Conquest: Or, A Piece of Jade, set in rural New Zealand and London, investigates themes of colonialism, pacifism, and romance. "But I answer you lads, what language do we speak? English! What race are we? Britons! Why, lads, the British over there aren't as British as we are; They are English and Scotch and Irish and Welsh-but what are we? All these British strains mixed! Most of us have some Scotch blood and some English blood and some Irish blood mixed in our veins, many of us have been to other parts of Britain and got a touch of Canada, or Australia, or South Africa into us." While working on their sheep farm in rural New Zealand, Gordon and Robert Hyde are visited by a military recruiter sent to gather men for the fight against Germany. Despite his patriotic fervor, Gordon is denied enlistment because of a pronounced limp. Left behind, emasculated and overwhelmed with guilt, he turns away from his romantic pursuit of Nora Lee to devote himself to political theory. Writing up plans for an international super-parliament with the help of Nora's cousin Loveday, Gordon dreams of presenting his ideas to the British government. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Marie Stopes' Conquest: Or, A Piece of Jade is a classic of British scientific literature reimagined for modern readers.