Margaret Sanger's Eugenic Legacy
Subtitle: The Control of Female Fertility
Publisher: McFarland & Company; McFarland
Published: January 28, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9780786420117
Subjects: Birth control, contraception, family planning; Population & demography; Sociology; Population Control; Social Science; Women's Studies - General; United States; Sociology - General; Eugenics; 1879-1966; Birth control; Sanger, Margaret,; Sterilization (Birth control)
First sentence: As the introduction indicated, many historians of Sanger and the birth-control movement assume that Sanger embraced eugenics only pragmatically on behalf of her feminism, and thus that her feminism neutralizes her eugenics.
Description: "This work addresses Sanger's ideas concerning birth control, eugenics, population control, and sterilization against the backdrop of the larger eugenic context"--Provided by publisher.