Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America
Ellen Chesler's 1992 biography of Margaret Sanger is acclaimed as definitive and is widely used and cited by scholars and activists alike in the fields of women's health and reproductive rights.
Chesler's substantive new Afterword considers how Sanger's life and work hold up in light of subsequent developments, such as U.S. Supreme Court cases challenging the constitutional doctrine of privacy and international definitions of reproductive health as an essential human right.
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Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America
Ellen Chesler's 1992 biography of Margaret Sanger is acclaimed as definitive and is widely used and cited by scholars and activists alike in the fields of women's health and reproductive rights.
Chesler's substantive new Afterword considers how Sanger's life and work hold up in light of subsequent developments, such as U.S. Supreme Court cases challenging the constitutional doctrine of privacy and international definitions of reproductive health as an essential human right.
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Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America
Ellen Chesler's 1992 biography of Margaret Sanger is acclaimed as definitive and is widely used and cited by scholars and activists alike in the fields of women's health and reproductive rights.
Chesler's substantive new Afterword considers how Sanger's life and work hold up in light of subsequent developments, such as U.S. Supreme Court cases challenging the constitutional doctrine of privacy and international definitions of reproductive health as an essential human right.
ELLEN CHESLER is distinguished lecturer and director of the Eleanor Roosevelt Initiative on Women and Public Life at Roosevelt House, the new public policy center of Hunter College of the City University of New York. Woman of Valor was a finalist for PEN's 1993 Martha Albrand prize for the year's best first work of nonfiction.
Table of Contents
Introduction 11 The Woman Rebel 19 Ghosts 21 Love and Work 44 Seeds of Rebellion 56 The Personal Is Political 74 Bohemia and Beyond 89 A European Education 105 The Frenzy of Renown 128 The Company She Kept 150 The Lady Reformer 177 New Woman, New World 179 The Conditions of Reform 200 Organizing for Birth Control 223 Happiness in Marriage 243 Doctors and Birth Control 269 A Community of Women 287 Grande Dame, Grandmere 311 Lobbying for Birth Control 313 Same Old Deal 336 Foreign Diplomacy 355 From Birth Control to Family Planning 371 Intermezzo 396 Last Act 414 Woman of the Century 443 Afterword 469 Notes 493 Selected Bibliography 617 Acknowledgments 637 Index 641
