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Reproductive Physiology and Birth Control - The Writings of Charles Knowlton and Annie Besant (Hardcover)
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Reproductive Physiology and Birth Control - The Writings of Charles Knowlton and Annie Besant (Hardcover)
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"I say that this is a dirty, filthy book, and the test of it is
that no human being would allow that book on his table, no decently
educated English husband would allow even his wife to have ita."
Such was the uncompromising pronouncement of Sir Hardinge Gifford,
Her Majesty's Solicitor General, who in 1877 prosecuted Charles
Bradlaugh and Annie Besant for publishing Dr. Charles Knowlton's
Fruits of Philosophy.Knowlton's work was the first American medical
handbook on contraception. It had become an incredibly popular book
among Britons who believed the neo-Malthusian dictum that the only
solution to poverty in Britain was a limit on the growth of its
population. They saw effective birth control measures as a way to
make such a limit practicable. In 1877, its publisher was hauled
into court and pleaded guilty to printing obscene material.
Bradlaugh and Besant tested the right of official harassment by
bringing out an edition of the Fruits of Philosophy that bore an
introduction explaining their motives. The pair was arrested and
charged with violating the Obscene Publications Act of 1857.Their
arrest, trial, conviction, and eventual acquittal constitute a
landmark in the history of the world birth control movement. The
enormous publicity accorded the principals and their cause brought
the subject of family planning into the homes of nearly every
Briton who read the newspapers' sensational coverage. What followed
thereafter is telling: a dramatic, steady decline in the English
birthrate. By their simple act of publishing Knowlton's short book,
Bradlaugh and Besant helped establish England's pioneering role in
the dissemination, democratization, and implementation of birth
control information.Sripati Chandrasekhar is an internationally
respected demographer and social scientist. He is a former minister
of health and family planning in India and was vice-chancellor of
Annamalai University in South India. He is the author of numerous
books and articles on population and family planning.
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