Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger
by David M. Kennedy
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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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David M. Kennedy is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History Emeritus at Stanford University and the Director Emeritus of the Bill Lane Center for the American West, He won the Bancroft Prize for Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger and won the Pulitzer Prize for History for Freedom from Fear: The American People in show more Depression and War, 1929-1945. He is also the editor of the renowned Oxford History of the United States. show less
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- Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger
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- Margaret Sanger
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- Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies, History, Home & Garden, Biography & Memoir, Philosophy
- DDC/MDS
- 613.94 — Applied science & technology Medicine & health Personal health and Fitness Birth control, reproductive technology, sex hygiene, sexual techniques Birth control and reproductive technology
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- HQ764 .S3 .K45 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women The family. Marriage. Home Family size
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