| Description |
xviii, 397 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-380) and index. |
| Summary |
In 1916, Margaret Sanger made her legal stand against the repressive laws forbidding the distribution of obscene articles-including any information on contraception. Though embraced by feminists, socialists, birth-control advocates, and the working class, her ideas are still as controversial and valid today as they were ninety years ago. Margaret Sanger was a controversial fighter for legalized birth control and visionary whose ideas formed Planned Parenthood. In this book Miriam Reed compiles historical and personal commentary on a broad selection of Sanger's letters, articles, and speeches. These original documents venture beyond Sanger's involvement in the contraception movement and depict the untold autobiography of Sanger's wide social impact. This book includes Sanger's writings on marriage and children, the labor movement, socialism, prison reform, pacifism, eugenics, and sex education. The chronological arrangement of documents illustrates Sanger's impact on these issues, the development of the struggle between working class and middle class, and the clash between conservative mores and the freethinking women that have shaped today's society. It features the original articles "Nothing" and "What Every Girl Should Know" from The New York Call, which sparked the ongoing struggle for women's reproductive freedom. |
| Contents |
Introduction to the rebel -- Early years -- Socialism -- Early sex education -- IWW and the Lawrence strike -- The Comstock Laws -- Life as a radical -- Confronting the government -- Continuing the confrontation -- Exile and Europe -- A European education -- Death and acclaim -- Time in prison -- The first birth control clinic -- Introduction to the reformer -- The Birth Control Review -- World War I -- Rightful causes -- Motherhood -- Margaret Sanger as feminist author -- Appeal to science -- The town hall raid -- First Japan trip -- The eugenics craze -- Advice to the married -- The first World Population Conference -- "Children troop down" -- The raid on the Clinical Research Bureau -- National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control -- A new deal for babies -- India and world tour for birth control, 1935-1936 -- M.S. meets Gandhi -- Fortunate support -- Introduction to tohe conservative radical -- The negro project -- Entertaining and chicken curry -- Marriage and J. Noah H. Slee -- The birth of the pill -- Rules for a life -- Mainstream acceptance -- the International Planned Parenthood Federation -- Overpopulation and the Draper Report -- Finis and epilogue. |
| Subject |
Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966.
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Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966 -- Correspondence.
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Birth control -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Women's rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Women social reformers -- United States -- Biography.
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Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966 (OCoLC)fst00006408
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Birth control. (OCoLC)fst00833148
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Women social reformers. (OCoLC)fst01178540
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Women's rights. (OCoLC)fst01178818
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Personal correspondence. (OCoLC)fst01919948
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Reed, Miriam. Margaret Sanger. Fort Lee, N.J. : Barricade Books, ©2003 (OCoLC)690075612 |
| ISBN |
1569802556 (casebound) |
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9781569802557 (casebound) |
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1569802467 (pbk.) |
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9781569802465 (pbk.) |
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