Stephanie Gorton

Stephanie Gorton is a Lebanese-American writer living in Providence. She is the author of "The Icon and the Idealist."

‘Women Should Have Children Instead of Poodles’—When Birth Control Came to Washington

The idea of birth control entered the national conversation in 1919, when an artist, activist, and single mother named Mary Ware Dennett brought the (quite shocking!) idea to Congress.

by Stephanie Gorton