Lesley A. Hall is based at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London. Her publications include 'Hidden Anxieties: Male Sexuality, 1900-1950' (Polity Press, 1991) and (with Roy Porter) 'The Facts of Life: The Creation of Sexual Knowledge in Britain, 1650-1950' (Yale University Press, 1995) as well as numerous articles and reviews.

• Introduction: 'The Knowledge in My Own Person'1: The early years, 1880-19142: The emergence of a freewoman, 1912-19143: Friends, war, pacifism and revolution4: Spanish flu and Red Dawn5: 'Strong red flag'6: Endings, beginnings, new directions in the middle way of life7: Activism and other interests8: Milestones on the long road to freedom9: Progressing10: The years of triumph11: Exile and TwilightCoda: Stella's AfterlifeBibliiographyIndex

'A rigorous work of scholarship and an astute evocative account of an inspiring fighter for birth control, abortion and sexual freedom. This is an historically illuminating and exceedingly relevant book.' - Sheila Rowbotham; 'Through a close and sympathetic analysis of Browne's hectic life, Hall has produced an innovative and enthralling history of the struggle for sex reform in the first half of the twentieth century as seen from the trenches. But she not only analyzes Browne's public presentations; having unearthed evidence of a number of her love affairs, Hall suggests how the public declarations on sexual issues of this complex and fascinating figure also reflected her personal experiences. The result is that Hall has crafted both an insightful history of the early twentieth-century fight for female reproductive choice and a moving portrait of the movement's most indefatigable and high-spirited campaigner.' - Angus McLaren