Ljusets fiender. Föredrag.
Häftad bok.
Hyggligt skick. Stockholm, Hilmer Wallentins förlag, 1910. 40 pp. Staple bound in publisher’s printed wrappers. Wrappers slightly worn and sunned, lower outer corner nicked. Second edition, published in the same year as the first, stated on cover “Tionde-tjugonde tusendet”. Hinke (i.e. Henrik Bernhard) Bergegren (1861-1936) was the most prominent activist for child birth prevention in early 20th century Sweden. This is the second of the two famous speeches he gave in 1910, this one roughly translated as “Enemies of the light”, the other one being “Love without children”. In the aftermath he was prosecuted and a new law was passed which prohibited the propaganda for (and partly the distribution of) contraceptives for almost three decades. The inspiration for his campaigning on this issue came from France. Bergegren was a well known socialist that had been expelled from the Swedish Social Democratic Party because he leaned too much towards anarcho-syndicalist ideas. In 1909 he traveled to France where he met the anarchists Eugene Humbèrt and Henriette Jeanne Rigaudin who campaigned for family planning through contraceptives. Bergegren decided to take up the fight in Sweden. Later in 1910 the law was passed that made campaigning for contraceptives illegal, and the law was nick-named ”Lex Hinke”.
