The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger
Volume 3: The Politics of Planned Parenthood, 1939-1966
Cathy Moran Hajo and Peter C. Engelman, Associate Editors
The birth control movement's continuing struggle to expand beyond barriers of race and class
Cloth – $95
978-0-252-03372-8
Publication Date
Cloth: 08/02/2010
About the Book
Birth control crusader, feminist, and reformer Margaret Sanger was one of the most controversial and dynamic figures of the twentieth century and one of the great women reformers in history. Volume 3: The Politics of Planned Parenthood, 1939-1966 of The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger highlights Sanger's quest for the "magic pill," the non-barrier method of birth control she had envisioned since the early 1930s. These lively and fascinating letters and other writings tell the story of Sanger's consequential collaboration with the philanthropist Katharine Dexter McCormick and their masterful direction of scientists, physicians, and birth control bureaucrats toward the production of the first contraceptive pill--the catalyst for the sexual revolution.About the Author
Esther Katz is editor and director of the Margaret Sanger Papers Project and associate professor (adjunct) of history at New York University. Cathy Moran Hajo is an associate editor of the Margaret Sanger Papers Project and an adjunct assistant professor in New York University's Archives and Public History Program. Peter C. Engelman is an associate editor of the Margaret Sanger Papers Project, a freelance writer, and an archivist.Also by this author
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"This volume provides accurate, dramatic context to the often conflicting struggle to make birth control acceptable in American culture and to make it a global movement. Katz, Hajo, and Engelman have produced an edition that is useful to biographers, scholars, students, and the inquisitive policy maker. I give it my highest recommendation."--Allida M. Black, editor and director of The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project
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