num_pages: 704
description: Ellen Chesler's 1992 biography of Margaret Sanger is acclaimed as definitive and is widely used and cited by scholars and activists alike in the fields of women's health and reproductive rights.Chesler's substantive new Afterword considers how Sanger's life and work hold up in light of subsequent developments, such as U.S. Supreme Court cases challenging the constitutional doctrine of privacy and international definitions of reproductive health as an essential human right.
language: English
title: Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America
titlecomplete: Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America
characters: Margaret Sanger
genres: Biography, Politics, Social Justice, Womens, Nonfiction, Health, Gender Studies, Feminism, Biography Memoir, History
ratings_count: 159
publisher: Simon & Schuster