Studies in the Life of Women

1 total work

Feminism and Family Planning in Victorian England

by J.A. Banks and Olive Banks

Published December 1964

Having demonstrated that their economic aspirations and circumstances were a necessary but not a sufficient cause for the onset of family limitation by the English upper and middle classes, another suggested explanation, the emancipation of women, is examined in this study. This shows how the feminists were little involved in the family limitation campaigns, and concludes that such emancipation was less important than the rising standard of living.