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Reynolds profiles 11 spearheads of the movement for reproductive rights and sexual education, beginning with Fanny Wright, a Scot who advocated women's equal rights, free love, and birth control in the Victorian era. Other nineteenth-century figures are Annie Besant, tried in Britain in 1877 for immorality for her part in reprinting an old birth control pamphlet, and Emma Goldman, also arrested because of her stand on birth control. There's American Margaret Sanger, who sought to make contraception available to all, and English paleobotanist Marie Stopes, who focused on sex education, as did American Mary Denett, convicted for using the mails to distribute educational material about reproduction. Contemporaries include physician Mary Calderone, whose text on contraceptive practices was published the same year (1964) she founded the Sex Information and Education Council of the U.S.; Katharine McCormick, who helped finance the development of oral contraception; and Sarah Waddington, the young attorney who successfully argued Roe v. Wade. ~--Whitney Scott