Ettie Rout: New Zealand’s safer sex pioneer

(Penguin, 2015)

is a shorter biography of one of our most famous women, concentrating on her safe sex campaign during World War 1. Because of Ettie, the New Zealand Expeditionary Force was the only allied army with compulsory prophylactic kit issue; a man had to take one when going on leave.

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