Sanger, Margaret 1879-1966

Margaret Sanger : an autobiography by Margaret Sanger ( Book )
48 editions published between 1938 and 2007 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,325 libraries worldwide
This autobiography of the pioneer of the birth control movement is an important piece of social history. It recounts many of the hardships women have endured due to lack of contraception and reveals the contradictory motives of the birth control movement.

The pivot of civilization by Margaret Sanger ( Book )
24 editions published between 1922 and 2008 in English and held by 1,234 libraries worldwide
"First published in 1922 by pioneering birth control advocate Margaret Sanger (1879-1966), this controversial work attempted to broaden the still-radical idea of birth control beyond its socialist and feminist roots. Shifting the focus from women's reproductive rights to the larger issue of the general welfare of the whole human race, Sanger argues that birth control is pivotal to a rational approach toward dealing with the threat of overpopulation and its ruinous consequences in poverty and disease. However, in arguing for population control, Sanger makes frequent reference to the then fashionable "science" of eugenics. While critics on both the right and the left have sought to diminish Sanger's achievements, based on the context of her arguments, they can never obscure her powerful feminist message: when women gain greater control over their fertility they will improve the human race."--BOOK JACKET.

The selected papers of Margaret Sanger by Margaret Sanger ( Book )
27 editions published between 2002 and 2010 in English and held by 719 libraries worldwide
Publisher's description: The birth control crusader, feminist, and reformer Margaret Sanger was one of the most controversial and compelling figures in the twentieth century. This first volume of The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger documents the critical phases and influences of an American feminist icon and offers rare glimpses into her working-class childhood, burgeoning feminism, spiritual and scientific interests, sexual explorations, and diverse roles as wife, mother, nurse, journalist, radical socialist, and activist. These letters and other writings, including diaries, journals, articles, and speeches, most of which have never before been published, have been selected and assembled with an eye to telling the story of a remarkable life, punctuated by arrests and imprisonments, exile, love affairs, and a momentous personal loss--a life consumed with the quest for women's sexual liberation. Because its narrative line is so absorbing, volume 1 may be read as a powerful biography. Volume 1 covers a twenty-eight-year period from nurse's training and early socialist involvement in pre- World War I bohemian Greenwich Village to Sanger's adoption of birth control (a term she helped coin in 1914) as a fundamental tenet of women's rights. It traces the intersection of her life and work with other reformers, activists and leaders of modernity on both sides of the Atlantic, including Havelock Ellis, H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Emma Goldman, Max Eastman, and Eugene Debs, as well as many leading radical artists and writers of the day. It highlights her legislative and organizational efforts, her support of the eugenics movement, and the alliances she secured with medical professionals in her crusade to make birth control legal, respectable, and accessible. This volume also includes letters from women desperately in need of fertility control who saw Sanger as their last hope. Supplemented by an introduction, brief essays providing narrative and chronological links, and substantial notes, the volume is an invaluable tool for understanding Sanger's actions and accomplishments. The documents assembled here, more than 80 percent of them letters, were culled from the Margaret Sanger Papers Microfilm Edition, edited by Esther Katz, Cathy Moran Hajo, and Peter C. Engelman. Two subsequent volumes will address later periods in her life, and an additional volume will cover her international work in the birth control struggle.

Woman and the new race by Margaret Sanger ( Book )
26 editions published between 1920 and 2011 in English and held by 636 libraries worldwide
The chronicle of Sanger's decades-long battle to legalize and develop inforrmation on the prevention of venereal disease and then methods of birth control, during which she endured indictment, exile and prison.

My fight for birth control by Margaret Sanger ( Book )
14 editions published between 1931 and 1969 in English and held by 567 libraries worldwide

Motherhood in bondage by Margaret Sanger ( Book )
17 editions published between 1928 and 2000 in English and German and held by 552 libraries worldwide
Selections from letters sent to Mrs. Sanger by mothers in the United States and Canada.--cf. Vorwort.

Happiness in marriage by Margaret Sanger ( Book )
20 editions published between 1920 and 1993 in English and held by 417 libraries worldwide

Woman Rebel ( Book )
10 editions published in 1976 in English and held by 283 libraries worldwide

What every boy and girl should know by Margaret Sanger ( Book )
41 editions published between 1900 and 1980 in 4 languages and held by 253 libraries worldwide
A part of the Duke Medical Center Library History of Medicine Ephemera Collection.

The new motherhood by Margaret Sanger ( Book )
7 editions published between 1922 and 1970 in English and German and held by 232 libraries worldwide