Margaret Sanger: an Autobiography

Margaret Sanger

• Publisher: Rare Treasure Editions
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781774649466
• Subtopic: Medicine Biographies
• Index: Social Sciences

Sanger's general interest in sex education and women's health focuses on family, marriage and motherhood. As a nurse she saw graphic examples of the toll taken by frequent childbirth, miscarriage, and self-induced abortion. With access to contraceptive information prohibited on grounds of obscenity by state and federal laws, Sanger realized that many less well-off women did not have freedom from the physical hardships, fear, and dependency inherent in unwanted pregnancy. Awakened to the connection between contraception and working-class empowerment, Sanger became convinced that liberating women from the risk of too many unwanted pregnancies would effect fundamental social change in allowing women to claim their reproductive rights. She was never an advocate of abortion but of birth control. Sanger launched a campaign challenging governmental censorship of contraceptive information by embarking on a series of law-defying confrontational actions designed to force birth control into the center of public debate and eventual accessibility for all women.

Table of contents

• Chapter One - FROM WHICH I SPRING
• Chapter Two - BLIND GERM OF DAYS TO BE
• Chapter Three - BOOKS ARE THE COMPASSES
• Chapter Four - DARKNESS THERE AND NOTHING MORE
• Chapter Five - CORALS TO CUT LIFE UPON
• Chapter Six - FANATICS OF THEIR PURE IDEALS
• Chapter Seven - THE TURBID EBB AND FLOW OF MISERY
• Chapter Eight - I HAVE PROMISES TO KEEP
• Chapter Nine - THE WOMAN REBEL
• Chapter Ten - WE SPEAK THE SAME GOOD TONGUE
• Chapter Eleven - HAVELOCK ELLIS
• Chapter Twelve - STORK OVER HOLLAND
• Chapter Thirteen - THE PEASANTS ARE KINGS
• Chapter Fourteen - O, TO BE IN ENGLAND
• Chapter Fifteen - HIGH HANGS THE GAUNTLET
• Chapter Sixteen - HEAR ME FOR MY CAUSE
• Chapter Seventeen - FAITH I HAVE BEEN A TRUANT IN THE LAW
• Chapter Eighteen - LEAN HUNGER AND GREEN THIRST
• Chapter Nineteen - THIS PRISON WHERE I LIVE
• Chapter Twenty - A STOUT HEART TO A STEEP HILL
• Chapter Twenty-one - THUS TO REVISIT
• Chapter Twenty-two - DO YE HEAR THE CHILDREN WEEPING?
• Chapter Twenty-three - IN TIME WE ONLY CAN BEGIN
• Chapter Twenty-four - LAWS WERE LIKE COBWEBS
• Chapter Twenty-five - ALIEN STARS ARISE
• Chapter Twenty-six - THE EAST IS BLOSSOMING
• Chapter Twenty-seven - ANCIENTS OF THE EARTH
• Chapter Twenty-eight - THE WORLD IS MUCH THE SAME EVERYWHERE
• Chapter Twenty-nine - WHILE THE DOCTORS CONSULT
• Chapter Thirty - NOW IS THE TIME FOR CONVERSE
• Chapter Thirty-one - GREAT HEIGHTS ARE HAZARDOUS
• Chapter Thirty-two - CHANGE IS HOPEFULLY BEGUN
• Chapter Thirty-three - OLD FATHER ANTIC, THE LAW
• Chapter Thirty-four - SENATORS, BE NOT AFFRIGHTED
• Chapter Thirty-five - A PAST WHICH IS GONE FOREVER
• Chapter Thirty-six - FAITH IS A FINE INVENTION
• Chapter Thirty-seven - WHO CAN TAKE A DREAM FOR TRUTH?
• Chapter Thirty-eight - DEPTH BUT NOT TUMULT
• Chapter Thirty-nine - SLOW GROWS THE SPLENDID PATTERN