Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger

David M. Kennedy

YALE University Press, 1970 - Biography & Autobiography - 320 pages

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger; Volume 18 of Yale publications in American studies, ISSN 0084-3393
• Author: David M. Kennedy
• Edition: 3, illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: YALE University Press, 1970
• ISBN: 0300014953, 9780300014952
• Length: 320 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Medical; Biography & Autobiography / Women; Social Science / Women's Studies