Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970. Hardcover. Black cloth/boards; gilt lettering. Red dj with bw image and white lettering. Mylar cover. xi + [5] + 320 pp. with bw frontis. Good/Good. Clean and tight but with general shelf wear; art school ex-lib. copy with usual marks. Some marking from old tape on end papers. Item #157650
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 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.
OCLC: 78042
Price: $35.00