Birth Control in America
Subtitle: The Career of Margaret Sanger
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: September 4, 2009
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780300014952
Subjects: Biographies & Memoirs -- Historical -- United States; Biographies & Memoirs -- Professionals & Academics -- Medical; Biographies & Memoirs -- Specific Groups -- Women; Health, Mind & Body; History -- Americas -- United States -- 20th Century; Medicine -- Administration & Policy -- Public Health; Nonfiction -- Social Sciences -- Gender Studies; Nonfiction -- Women's Studies -- Abortion & Birth Control; Nonfiction -- Women's Studies -- Feminist Theory
Description: The relation between Margaret Sanger's character and the nature of the birth control movement she led in the U.S. is explored from 1912, when her pioneering work began, until 1945, when, simultaneously, the U.S. government accepted the idea of birth control and Mrs. Sanger retired from leadership of the movement. The book tries to illuminate, through Mrs. Sanger's life, an aspect of American society of that period, the context in which Mrs. Sanger worked, and the attitudinal and institutional responses she evoked. The focus is on the public career of Margaret Sanger, not her private life. A thorough bibliographical essay and selected bibliography are included at the end.