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circulated in great numbers by clergymen, Y.M.C.A. secretaries, social workers, and other such chemically pure persons. This went on for four and a half years. Then Mrs. Dennett, who is engaged in birth-control propaganda, began annoying the wowsers of the U.S. Post Office by exposing their gross stupidity and disingenuousness in the enforcement of the Comstock Act, and they retorted by barring her pamphlet from the mails. No plainer case of the use of an idiotic law to punish an inconvenient critic could be imagined.
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to vote, Dennett states, on the contrary, men are never asked “if all men want to vote, “if he thinks the laws need changing”, “if he will promise to better the laws”, “to give statistics showing whether men have previously used their votes to better the laws”, if he is sure he can still be a good father, and “to remain attractive” after voting. She wishes for everyone to “concentrate all our energies on the real point- namely, that the qualifications for voting shall be made without regard to sex.”
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at the time. Sex was represented solely for reproduction reasons and not for pleasure. She graphically described sex organs, sexual intercourse, and orgasms. She also wrote about birth control methods, contraception, and sexually transmitted diseases. She advocated for masturbation to be more normalized. These thoughts were revolutionary, yet highly controversial for the time period.
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contained inaccurate information or used fear and shame tactics to dissuade the youth from having sex. Therefore, she decided to write her own explanation using research and interviews with doctors. She passed the writing on to her friends with adolescent children. In 1918, it was published in Medical Review of Reviews, and a year later it was published as a pamphlet.
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sex and sex education and didn’t feel comfortable with any of the information provided. This led her to write her own. Dennett shares her perspective of love and normalizes falling out of love. Dennett covered topics from masturbation, labor, and sexually transmitted diseases. Dennett also used detailed diagrams so her readers could easily visualize sex organs.
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material that met her standards, which included scientific correctness, sex-positivity, and discussion of the emotional side of sexual relationships. The arrest of William Sanger in 1915 for distributing Margaret Sanger's birth control pamphlet catalyzed the birth control movement in the United States, and this time Dennett decided to get involved.
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Concerned about the effect that Hartley was having on their children, Dennett filed for divorce in 1912, at the time an unusual and scandalous action. The courts finalized Dennett's divorce and granted her full custody of her children in 1913. The divorce proceedings were a popular topic in the local newspapers, to Mary Dennett's great discomfort.
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She began as field secretary of the Massachusetts Suffrage Association, organizing lectures, rallies, sermons, cheap meals, speaking tours to gather signatures for petitions, and similar outreach efforts. Dennett's opinion on why women deserved the vote was simple: "Our basic principles that 'governments derive their just powers from the
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their power to penalize me for my work for the young people of this country, they must bear the shame of a jail sentence. It is government which is disgraced, not I." Dennett was proud of her work in sexual education and wanted it to last. In 1941, Mary Dennett became elected chair of a new movement, the World Federalists.
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sympathetic, but resigned before taking any action. His replacement, Dr. Hubert Work, was adamantly opposed to birth control information, earlier stating that his opinions on birth control could be summarized as "sterilize all boys and girls who are unfit to become parents, and then let nature take its course unhindered."
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Dennett begins her pamphlet with sharing how much of the human experience is universal. She believed that everyone has similar thoughts and feelings, yet we are too embarrassed or uncomfortable to share with others. Her pamphlet helped people feel less alone. Dennett read other booklets pertaining to
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Dennett published “Birth Control Laws: Shall We Keep Them Change Them or Abolish Them” in 1926. Her main focus was to share her opinions and encourage a discussion concerning how necessary the laws pertaining to birth control are in the United States. She questioned if it would be best to modify the
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In this piece, Mary Dennett asks the reader to think about women and children under the US legal system. She argues that men have never had to justify why they have a right to vote. She wrote “The Real Point” around 1911 and 1915 advocating for equal voting rights. When women advocated for the right
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In 1929, Dennett was arrested for her work with sex education, women's rights, and birth control. Many people felt that her work was obscene and she should be imprisoned or fined. "Mary Dennett sounded defiant, proclaiming she would pay no fine, however small: 'If a few federal officials want to use
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In 1915, Dennett's name was again in the newspapers, against her wishes. Her ex-husband Hartley Dennett, his partner Margaret Chase, and her husband Dr. Chase extended a public invitation to Mary Dennett to, as one newspaper put it, "adopt the creed of harmonious love and form a quadrangle" with the
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Dennett worked for the cause of women's suffrage from 1910 to 1914, a period that marked the revival of the women's suffrage movement, which had stagnated during the previous decade. After several years of work for the National American Women's Suffrage Association, she became disillusioned with the
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Mary Coffin Ware Dennett was born April 4, 1872, in her hometown Worcester, Massachusetts. Dennett was the second child of four born to George and Vonie Ware. Dennett was a precocious, talkative, and assertive child, "scolding for striking her, often quoting the Bible." At age 10, her father died
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Dennett wrote the pamphlet, “The Sex Side of Life'' in 1915. Majority of Dennett’s pamphlet was directed towards adolescents and its goal was to inform teenagers about safe sex and sex education. She described sex as passionate and emotional, which was extremely different from how sex was described
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Dennett did not become active in the women's suffrage movement until her marriage began to break up. Later, she wrote, "I went into suffrage work, as perhaps you know, because I needed an anesthetic at the time, and suffrage was the nearest thing at hand that was unconnected with my previous work."
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The Dennetts’ first child a son named Carlton was born in December 1900, after a difficult labor that nearly killed the mother. After another difficult labor, their second child a son named Appleton was born in 1903. However the baby was frail and died 3 weeks later. A third child was born in 1905,
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James E. Wilkinson was the prosecutor during Dennett’s trial for sending her pamphlet through the US mail. He blamed Dennett for bringing the younger generation “not only into the gutter, but below the gutter into the sewer.” After Dennett mentioned birth control, Wilkinson responded with, "What
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Dennett returned to lobbying Congress in 1922, pointing out that private opinion of members of congress must be in favor of birth control since the average number of children of a member of congress was 2.7. She continued to have difficulty finding sponsors for the bill, but succeeded in 1923 when
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In 1914, Dennett met Margaret Sanger, a birth control advocate. Dennett was intrigued, but did not feel financially secure enough to join the birth control movement at the time. In 1915, Dennett wrote a sex education pamphlet for her children, as the result of the lack of any existing educational
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Motivated by both a desire to escape the unpleasant realities of her life as well as William Hartley Dennett's refusal to financially support his children, Mary Dennett returned to working outside the home, but not in her previous career as an artist and interior designer. In 1908 she accepted the
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The pamphlet was 24 pages long. Dennett used scientific discussion of sex while also including the emotion side of sex relations. The pamphlet covered controversial topics including masturbation, sexually transmitted diseases, prostitution, and support for the use of birth control. Her views were
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In 1921, Dennett changed her approach and decided to work directly with the postmaster general, whose responsibility it was to enforce the laws banning distribution of birth control information through the mails (although in practice this was not enforced). Postmaster General William Hayes seemed
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On April 24 in 1929, the New York Times published an article titled, "Mrs. Dennett Guilty In Sex Booklet Case". Prosecuting attorney James Wilkinson described the booklet as "pure and simple smut" and stated "If I can stand between this woman and the children of the land I will have accomplished
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Criticism arose from this work. Many believed that her book was propaganda, aiming to spread misinformation. Frederick H. Hitchcock wrote in 1936, “This book is obviously propaganda for the removal of federal and state restrictions on the importation, manufacture and distribution of devices and
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In 1904, Dennett's husband William Hartley Dennett began work on a house for Dr. Heman Lincoln Chase and his wife Margaret. Hartley Dennett and Margaret Chase eventually developed an extremely close relationship, culminating in William Hartley Dennett moving out of his and Mary's house in 1909.
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After fours years of being in circulation, the Post Office informed Dennett that the pamphlet was obscene, and therefore it was banned from being mailed under the Comstock Act. She continued to mail out the pamphlet after the Post Office ignored her inquiries of what parts of the pamphlet were
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Mary Ware Dennett garnered public attention and media exposure for her sex education pamphlet, “The Sex Side of Life,” which she had written for the benefit of her sons in 1915, because she was unable to find any adequate books on the subject. Many existing sexual-education publications either
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at the federal level, rather than state-by-state efforts. She lobbied Congress to simply remove the words "prevention of conception" from federal obscenity statutes. Dennett repeatedly lobbied individual senators in person for a year before she found one willing to sponsor the bill, Senator H.
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Dennett became inspired to fight for birth control after she sustained a laceration on her uterus after surgery. Because of the surgery, she was advised by her doctor to not have children, and the only way she could ensure that she wouldn't become pregnant was by practicing abstinence. After
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There is, of course, nothing indecent in that pamphlet; on the contrary, it is notably prudent and clean. The author wrote it for the instruction of her own young sons, and its superiority to most other such literature was so apparent that it was reprinted at length in a medical journal, and
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and her organization lobbied in favor of a version of the bill that would allow birth control information to doctors only, and lobbied against the "straight repeal" bill. In 1925, Dennett gave up on passing the "straight repeal" bill and retired from her position at the VPL.
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Eventually a safe jury was empanelled by the prosecution “and Mrs. Dennett was quickly convicted, and Judge Burrows fined her $ 300. The jury was composed entirely of "middle-aged family men". The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) supported and sponsored Dennett (its
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in 1915 with Jesse Ashley and Clara Gruening Stillman. Dennett decided to start by rallying public support to strike down laws restricting birth control information. Later, as the NBCL faltered, she resigned as executive secretary and founded a new organization, the
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introduced the straight repeal bill in the Senate. However, the bill made no further progress during that session, since Cummins was unable to succeed in getting the rest of the Senate to vote on it due to mass absenteeism when it came up for a vote.
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another boy named Devon, again after a difficult labor. Following this labor Dennett became ill and had to give up her professional work in order to recover. This time the doctor told the Dennetts that they should not have any more children, due to a
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existing laws or completely change them. Her piece consists of explaining the current laws during the time, the laws at a federal level, congress’ role, physicians role, how society views these laws, and her opinions of how the future should look.
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Later, Dennett became disillusioned with NAWSA after an unsuccessful attempt to reorganize to be more effective and what she saw as wasteful decisions overly influenced by wealthy donors. She resigned her position at NAWSA in 1914.
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overturned her conviction in 1930, the Court set a legal precedent that took intent into account in the evaluation of obscenity. Dennett's trial was part of a series of rulings that culminated in the 1936 ruling in
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I was utterly ignorant of the control of conception, as was my husband also. We had never had anything like normal relations, having approximated almost complete abstinence in the endeavor to space our babies."
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In the next session of Congress, Representative William N. Vaile sponsored the bill in the House of Representatives. However, it was also stalled continually and never came to a vote. In addition,
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three of them. Dennett feared the negative effect that her involuntary notoriety might have on the organizations she worked with and considered resigning from the Twilight Sleep Association.
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in her uterus that required corrective surgery. However her doctor did not give them any information on birth control. Later Dennett wrote of their lack of information on birth control:
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will happen to America if our national standards fall so low? Where will our soldiers come from in our hour of need? God help America if we haven't men to defend her in that hour.".
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of cancer. Her mother supported the family by organizing European tours for young women. While her mother was absent on tours, Dennett and her siblings often lived with their Aunt
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Dennett achieved her goal in an entirely different manner in 1930, by winning an appeal of her conviction for distribution of birth control information under the Comstock Act.
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reduced infant mortality and the risk of injury and infection, due to reduced use of forceps. She served as acting president until 1914, then as vice president.
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materials wherewith to prevent conception and for the removal of restrictions on the dissemination of information concerning the prevention of conception.”
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in Philadelphia in 1894. She also had a position at Drexel Institute teaching design and decoration from 1894 to 1897.
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obscene that ‘no case was made for submission to the jury,’ and ordered Mrs. Dennett released from her bond.”
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considered radical for this time, because she was not promoting abstinence. See Major Works section for more.
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Beginning in 1919, Dennett focused on a "straight repeal" of the birth control provisions of the
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observed the proceedings. He had briefly praised Mrs. Dennett's book in the May 1926 issue of
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The Sex Side of Civil Liberties: United States v. Dennett and the Changing Face of Free Speech
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Dennett married William Hartley Dennett, an architect, in 1900. They shared the ideal of the
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to aggressively recruit her for the position of Corresponding Secretary, reporting to Dr.
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Heisler Ball, a former practicing physician. However, he never introduced the bill.
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Dennett co-founded the Twilight Sleep Association (1913), which advocated the use of
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Following the court case, several New York newspapers criticized the results. The
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and Chase, JJ, set aside the verdict, decided that the pamphlet was so obviously
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in 1915 together with Jessie Ashley and Clara Gruening Stillman. She founded the
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wrote the verdict was “unfair and absurd by an overwhelming public sentiment”.
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in 1891 and graduated with first honors, then took a teaching position at the
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Guadamacile is an artistic technique of fine rendering of leather . .
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What Birth Control Means: Why Women Want Self-Determined Parenthood
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Fight for "straight repeal" to allow birth control information
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When the European war broke out in 1914, Dennett joined the
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History of the birth control movement in the United States
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American pacifist and women's rights advocate (1872–1947)
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Sex education pamphlet and trial under the Comstock Act
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to ease the pain of childbirth. Statistics showed that
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The Sex Side of Life: An Explanation for Young People
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United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
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In 1910, Dennett's success in Massachusetts led the
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Index

Mary Coffin Ware Dennett
Mary Dennett (prior)

Schlesinger Library
Activist
homeopathic
birth control
sex education
women's suffrage
National Birth Control League
Voluntary Parenthood League
National American Women's Suffrage Association
Comstock laws
Lucia Ames Mead
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Drexel Institute of Art
Arts and Crafts movement
Framingham, Massachusetts
laceration
Massachusetts Women's Suffrage Association
scopolamine
morphine
twilight sleep
Women's Peace Party
Woodrow Wilson
National Birth Control League
Jesse Ashley
Clara Gruening Stillman
The Sex Side of Life
Voluntary Parenthood League

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