Radiant Motherhood: A Book for Those who are Creating the Future

Abstract

THE publication of the report of the Royal Commission on Venereal Diseases in 1916, and of two reports by the National Birth-rate Commission in 1916 and 1920, if it did not in itself bring in a new era of frank, open discussion of what had been regarded as the secrets of la vie intime, at any rate gave to that era official recognition, and perhaps something also of the nature of a benison. When, further, it became evident that civilised mankind (including womankind) had begun to show its intense interest in its own reproduction by experimenting upon it, and even by attempting to control it, it followed with an almost gravitational certainty that individuals would in separate volumes set forth the hitherto unrevealed aspects of such subjects, and would each try to outdistance competitors in what may be called a race to lay bare all the phenomena of the sexual relations which precede and of the obstetrical results which follow (when they are permitted) the cohabitation of man and woman.

Radiant Motherhood: A Book for Those who are Creating the Future.

By Dr. Marie C. Stopes. Pp. 246. (London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, Ltd., 1920.) Price 6s. net.