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Woman of Valor: Margaret Sander and Birth Control Movement in America (Paperback)
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Woman of Valor: Margaret Sander and Birth Control Movement in America (Paperback)
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Loot Price R576
Discovery Miles 5 760
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This illuminating biography of Margaret Sanger--the woman who
fought for birth control in America--describes her childhood, her
private life, her relationships with Emma Goldman and John Reed,
her public role, and more.Margaret Sanger went to jail in 1917 for
distributing contraceptives to immigrant women in a makeshift
clinic in Brooklyn. She died a half-century later, just after the
Supreme Court guaranteed constitutional protection for the use of
contraceptives. Now, Ellen Chesler provides an authoritative and
widely acclaimed biography of this great emancipator, whose
lifelong struggle helped women gain control over their own bodies.
An idealist who mastered practical politics, Sanger seized on
contraception as the key to redistributing power to women in the
bedroom, the home, and the community. For fifty years, she battled
formidable opponents ranging from the US Government to the Catholic
Church. Her crusade was both passionate and paradoxical. She was an
advocate of female solidarity who often preferred the company of
men; an adoring mother who abandoned her children; a socialist who
became a registered Republican; a sexual adventurer who remained an
incurable romantic. Her comrades-in-arms included Emma Goldman and
John Reed; her lovers, Havelock Ellis and H.G. Wells. Drawing on
new information from archives and interviews, Chesler illuminates
Sanger's turbulent personal story as well as the history of the
birth control movement. An intimate biography of a visionary rebel,
Woman of Valor is also an epic story that extends from the radical
movements of pre-World War I to the family planning initiatives of
the Great Society. At a time when women's reproductive and sexual
autonomy is once again under attack, this landmark biography is
indispensable reading for the generations in debt to Sanger for the
freedoms they take for granted.
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