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 father was a free-thinker and her mother a Roman Catholic. Her father was an Irish immigrant, and her mother an Irish-American. Born in 1879, Sanger came of age during the heyday. Margaret Sanger was born in Corning, New York.

As a nurse she saw graphic examples of the toll taken by frequent childbirth, miscarriage, and self-induced abortion. Excellent, well-researched biography with one of the few in-depth examinations of Sanger. Sangers general interest in sex education and womens health focuses on family, marriage and motherhood. New York: Richard Marek Publishers, 1979. She was married twice, to William Sanger in 1900 and, after a divorce, to J. She attended Claverack College and then took nurse’s training in New York at the White Plains Hospital and the Manhattan Eye and Ear Clinic. Sanger resolved to dedicate her life to establishing birth control as a basic human right. Margaret Sanger devoted her life to legalizing birth control and making it universally available for women. Margaret Sanger: A Biography of the Champion of Birth Control. Margaret Sanger Sanger was the sixth of 11 children. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. 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. The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger - Kindle edition by Sanger, Margaret. 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. '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.

The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger by Margaret Sanger