Marie Stopes
1880 – 1958 · United Kingdom · Medicine, Biology
Opened Britain's first birth-control clinic; the charity still operates in 37 countries.
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Who shaped Marie Stopes, and who they shaped
Inherited from1
- Mary Wollstonecraft
1759 – 1797 · Politics, Philosophy
Rights-based argument for women's autonomy underlies her birth-control campaigning.
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- Nawal El Saadawi
1931 – 2021 · Literature, Medicine
Clinical advocacy for women's reproductive control is the precedent El Saadawi extends.
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