Author: Margaret Sanger
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
This autobiography tells of Sanger, a pioneer in the struggle for birth control as a basic human right and the founder of the International Planned Parenthood Federation. Sanger is a nurse, who has witnessed first-hand the devastating effects of unwanted pregnancy, triumphed over arrest, indictment, and exile. Her autobiography is a classic of women's studies.
Margaret Sanger: an autobiography
Author: Margaret Sanger
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
This autobiography tells of Sanger, a pioneer in the struggle for birth control as a basic human right and the founder of the International Planned Parenthood Federation. Sanger is a nurse, who has witnessed first-hand the devastating effects of unwanted pregnancy, triumphed over arrest, indictment, and exile. Her autobiography is a classic of women's studies.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
This autobiography tells of Sanger, a pioneer in the struggle for birth control as a basic human right and the founder of the International Planned Parenthood Federation. Sanger is a nurse, who has witnessed first-hand the devastating effects of unwanted pregnancy, triumphed over arrest, indictment, and exile. Her autobiography is a classic of women's studies.
Woman of Valor
Author: Ellen Chesler
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 141655369X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
This illuminating biography of Margaret Sanger—the woman who fought for birth control in America—describes her childhood, her private life, her relationships with Emma Goldman and John Reed, her public role, and more. Margaret Sanger went to jail in 1917 for distributing contraceptives to immigrant women in a makeshift clinic in Brooklyn. She died a half-century later, just after the Supreme Court guaranteed constitutional protection for the use of contraceptives. Now, Ellen Chesler provides an authoritative and widely acclaimed biography of this great emancipator, whose lifelong struggle helped women gain control over their own bodies. An idealist who mastered practical politics, Sanger seized on contraception as the key to redistributing power to women in the bedroom, the home, and the community. For fifty years, she battled formidable opponents ranging from the US Government to the Catholic Church. Her crusade was both passionate and paradoxical. She was an advocate of female solidarity who often preferred the company of men; an adoring mother who abandoned her children; a socialist who became a registered Republican; a sexual adventurer who remained an incurable romantic. Her comrades-in-arms included Emma Goldman and John Reed; her lovers, Havelock Ellis and H.G. Wells. Drawing on new information from archives and interviews, Chesler illuminates Sanger’s turbulent personal story as well as the history of the birth control movement. An intimate biography of a visionary rebel, Woman of Valor is also an epic story that extends from the radical movements of pre-World War I to the family planning initiatives of the Great Society. At a time when women’s reproductive and sexual autonomy is once again under attack, this landmark biography is indispensable reading for the generations in debt to Sanger for the freedoms they take for granted.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 141655369X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
This illuminating biography of Margaret Sanger—the woman who fought for birth control in America—describes her childhood, her private life, her relationships with Emma Goldman and John Reed, her public role, and more. Margaret Sanger went to jail in 1917 for distributing contraceptives to immigrant women in a makeshift clinic in Brooklyn. She died a half-century later, just after the Supreme Court guaranteed constitutional protection for the use of contraceptives. Now, Ellen Chesler provides an authoritative and widely acclaimed biography of this great emancipator, whose lifelong struggle helped women gain control over their own bodies. An idealist who mastered practical politics, Sanger seized on contraception as the key to redistributing power to women in the bedroom, the home, and the community. For fifty years, she battled formidable opponents ranging from the US Government to the Catholic Church. Her crusade was both passionate and paradoxical. She was an advocate of female solidarity who often preferred the company of men; an adoring mother who abandoned her children; a socialist who became a registered Republican; a sexual adventurer who remained an incurable romantic. Her comrades-in-arms included Emma Goldman and John Reed; her lovers, Havelock Ellis and H.G. Wells. Drawing on new information from archives and interviews, Chesler illuminates Sanger’s turbulent personal story as well as the history of the birth control movement. An intimate biography of a visionary rebel, Woman of Valor is also an epic story that extends from the radical movements of pre-World War I to the family planning initiatives of the Great Society. At a time when women’s reproductive and sexual autonomy is once again under attack, this landmark biography is indispensable reading for the generations in debt to Sanger for the freedoms they take for granted.
Margaret Sanger
Author: Jean H. Baker
Publisher: Hill and Wang
ISBN: 1429968974
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Undoubtedly the most influential advocate for birth control even before the term existed, Margaret Sanger ignited a movement that has shaped our society to this day. Her views on reproductive rights have made her a frequent target of conservatives and so-called family values activists. Yet lately even progressives have shied away from her, citing socialist leanings and a purported belief in eugenics as a blight on her accomplishments. In this captivating new biography, the renowned feminist historian Jean H. Baker rescues Sanger from such critiques and restores her to the vaunted place in history she once held. Trained as a nurse and midwife in the gritty tenements of New York's Lower East Side, Sanger grew increasingly aware of the dangers of unplanned pregnancy—both physical and psychological. A botched abortion resulting in the death of a poor young mother catalyzed Sanger, and she quickly became one of the loudest voices in favor of sex education and contraception. The movement she started spread across the country, eventually becoming a vast international organization with her as its spokeswoman. Sanger's staunch advocacy for women's privacy and freedom extended to her personal life as well. After becoming a wife and mother at a relatively early age, she abandoned the trappings of home and family for a globe-trotting life as a women's rights activist. Notorious for the sheer number of her romantic entanglements, Sanger epitomized the type of "free love" that would become mainstream only at the very end of her life. That she lived long enough to see the creation of the birth control pill—which finally made planned pregnancy a reality—is only fitting.
Publisher: Hill and Wang
ISBN: 1429968974
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Undoubtedly the most influential advocate for birth control even before the term existed, Margaret Sanger ignited a movement that has shaped our society to this day. Her views on reproductive rights have made her a frequent target of conservatives and so-called family values activists. Yet lately even progressives have shied away from her, citing socialist leanings and a purported belief in eugenics as a blight on her accomplishments. In this captivating new biography, the renowned feminist historian Jean H. Baker rescues Sanger from such critiques and restores her to the vaunted place in history she once held. Trained as a nurse and midwife in the gritty tenements of New York's Lower East Side, Sanger grew increasingly aware of the dangers of unplanned pregnancy—both physical and psychological. A botched abortion resulting in the death of a poor young mother catalyzed Sanger, and she quickly became one of the loudest voices in favor of sex education and contraception. The movement she started spread across the country, eventually becoming a vast international organization with her as its spokeswoman. Sanger's staunch advocacy for women's privacy and freedom extended to her personal life as well. After becoming a wife and mother at a relatively early age, she abandoned the trappings of home and family for a globe-trotting life as a women's rights activist. Notorious for the sheer number of her romantic entanglements, Sanger epitomized the type of "free love" that would become mainstream only at the very end of her life. That she lived long enough to see the creation of the birth control pill—which finally made planned pregnancy a reality—is only fitting.
From My Youth Up
Author: Margaret Elizabeth Munson Sangster
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Woman and the New Race
Author: Margaret Sanger
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Birth Control in America
Author: David M. Kennedy
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300014952
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Combines a biography of M. Sanger with a social history of the birth control movement.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300014952
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Combines a biography of M. Sanger with a social history of the birth control movement.
Woman Rebel
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birth control
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birth control
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Margaret Sanger
Author: Miriam Reed
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
This book includes Sanger's writings on marriage and children, the labor movement, socialism, prison reform, pacifism, eugenics and sex education.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
This book includes Sanger's writings on marriage and children, the labor movement, socialism, prison reform, pacifism, eugenics and sex education.
Killer Angel
Author: George Grant
Publisher: Cumberland House
ISBN: 9781581821505
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Killer Angel: A Short Biography Of Planned Parenthood's Founder, Margaret Sanger
Publisher: Cumberland House
ISBN: 9781581821505
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Killer Angel: A Short Biography Of Planned Parenthood's Founder, Margaret Sanger
What Every Girl Should Know
Author: Margaret Sanger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sex instruction
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sex instruction
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description