Motherhood in Bondage (Women and Health)
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: October 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 446
ISBN-13: 9780814208373
Subjects: Social conditions; Women; Pregnancy; Health Services For Women; Obstetrics; Women's Studies - History; Health & Fitness; Sociology; United States; Health/Fitness; Pregnancy & Childbirth; Parenting - Motherhood; Women's Health - General; Birth control
Description: "Margaret Sanger (1883-1966) was a leading figure in the American birth control movement. In Motherhood in Bondage, first published in 1928, Sanger reproduced letters written to her from women and sometimes men from all over the country, in both urban and rural areas, who were seeking advice on reproductive matters and marital relations, but mostly imploring her to help them find ways to avoid more pregnancies.

The letters are grouped by theme into sixteen chapters, and Sanger wrote an introduction to each chapter. In her new foreword for this edition, Margaret Marsh describes the controversies surrounding these letters and places them in their historical context."--BOOK JACKET.