Sharon Spaulding

Sharon Spaulding

Sharon Spaulding is a historian and researcher who specializes in the life and times of Mary Ware Dennett. The official curator of the Mary Ware Dennett family archives, Spaulding is at work on a book about Dennett’s court trial. She publishes the monthly newsletter “Women Make History: Stories We Should Have Learned in School” at sharonspaulding.com.

Mary Ware Dennett wrote The Sex Side of Life in 1915 as a teaching tool for her teenage sons.

The Sex Education Pamphlet That Sparked a Landmark Censorship Case

Women's rights activist Mary Ware Dennett was arrested in 1929 for mailing a booklet deemed "obscene, lewd or lascivious"

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