Abstract

This chapter examines in detail the campaign spearheaded by the Workers’ Birth Control Group within the Labour Party to have access to birth control information adopted as party policy. It sets this campaign in the context of both working-class life between the wars and the emergent birth control movement led by middle-class women such as Dora Russell. The chapter maps the tensions and struggles between the women’s sections of the Labour Party and the party leadership over birth control and argues that this revealed deep fissures around the conception of socialist action between the wars. It also offers an analysis of how views of maternity underpinned arguments for sexual reform.

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