Birth control in America : the career of Margaret Sanger

Birth control in America : the career of Margaret Sanger / David M. Kennedy.

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 leadersh...

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Main Author: Kennedy, David M. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [1970]
Series:Yale publications in American studies ; 18.
Subjects:
Sanger, Margaret, > 1879-1966.
Sanger, Margaret, > 1879-1966
Birth control > Biography.
Birth control > United States > History.
Reproductive health services.
National health services.
Medical care.
Family planning services.
Reproductive health services
National health services
Medical care
Family planning services
Birth control
United States
Biographies
History
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Table of Contents:
  • The Woman Rebel
  • The nineteenth-century heritage : the family, feminism, and sex
  • The organization of a social movement
  • Revolution and repression : the changing ideology of birth control
  • Margaret Sanger, sexuality, and feminism
  • The debate on morality
  • Birth control and American medicine
  • Birth control and the law
  • The fruits of rebellion.

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