When birth control was still taboo, socialists fought to make it accessible to working-class women, recognising women's emancipation as at the heart of the fight for a better world.
A recent New Yorker comic managed to convey some political truth. In "Nineteenth-Century Novels, with Better Birth Control," Glynnis Fawkes reimagines Victorian plots with modern advances in reproductive medicine. "How could I be dead from childbirth," Cathy Earnshaw cries in the updated Wuthering Heights, "when I was never pregnant?"
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