The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger by Margaret Sanger

Her battles brought a world of troubles - arrest, indictment, and exile among them - but ultimately she triumphed, opening the first American birth control clinic in 1916 and serving as the first president of the International Planned Parenthood Federation in 1953.Ī fascinating firsthand account of an early crusade for women's healthcare, this autobiography is a classic of women's studies and social reform. Her calendars and letters during the summer and fall of 1930 make mention of the steady progress of the manuscript as well as the difficulties of drawing out and culling memories. Sanger resolved to dedicate her life to establishing birth control as a basic human right. It appears that Sanger deviated from her usual book writing methods and actually wrote much of this first autobiography. Women already overwhelmed by the burdens of poverty had no recourse their doctors were either ignorant of effective methods of birth control or were unwilling to risk defying the law. Combining newly digitized data on the roll-out of these clinics, full-count Census data, and administrative vital statistics, we find that birth control clinics accounted for 5.0 7. From the mid-1920s, 'Sanger clinics' spread over the entire U.S. Sanger speaks of her experiences in New York and all around the world seeing the state of the poor and practicing nursing. From the mid-1920s, 'Sanger clinics' spread over the entire U.S. Margaret Sanger established the first birth control clinic in New York in 1916. 40.29 4 New from 40.29 This is memoir of the famous American birth control activist with a goal to promote her main cause the fight for birth control. While working as a nurse amid the squalor of New York's Lower East Side in the early twentieth century, Margaret Sanger witnessed the devastating effects of unwanted pregnancies. Margaret Sanger established the first birth control clinic in New York in 1916. A trained nurse by profession she founded a magazine on birth control as. 'A moving story of action - direct, forceful, and plain-spoken.…It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of this autobiography.' - Saturday Review of Literature. Margaret Sanger was the founder of the birth control movement in the United States.

The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger by Margaret Sanger