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The acceptability of birth control has always depended on a morality that separates sex from reproduction. In the nineteenth century, when the birth control movement began, such a separation was widely considered immoral. The eventual widespread public acceptance of birth control required a major reorientation of sexual values.
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It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
George Borrow
Linda Gordon
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January 19, 1940
(age 85)
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Linda Gordon is an American feminist and historian. She lives in New York City and in Madison, Wisconsin.
Known for:
Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits (2009)
The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction (1999)
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