Woman of valor : Margaret Sanger and the birth control movement in America / Ellen Chesler.
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 the first authoritati...
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. The woman rebel : Ghosts ; Love and work ; Seeds of rebellion ; The personal is political ; Bohemia and beyond ; A European education ; The frenzy of renown ; The company she kept
- pt. 2. The lady reformer : New woman, new world ; The conditions of reform ; Organizing for birth control ; Happiness in marriage ; Doctors and birth control ; A community of women
- pt. 3. Grande dame, grandmere : Lobbying for birth control ; Same old deal ; Foreign diplomacy ; From birth control to family planning ; Intermezzo ; Last act ; Woman of the century.