Woman of Valor Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America

by Chesler, Ellen

• ISBN13: 9781416540762
• ISBN10: 1416540768
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-10-16
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Ellen Chesler is a distinguished lecturer and director of the Eleanor Roosevelt Initiative on Women and Public Life at Roosevelt House, the 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	p. 11
The Woman Rebel	p. 19
Ghosts	p. 21
Love and Work	p. 44
Seeds of Rebellion	p. 56
The Personal Is Political	p. 74
Bohemia and Beyond	p. 89
A European Education	p. 105
The Frenzy of Renown	p. 128
The Company She Kept	p. 150
The Lady Reformer	p. 177
New Woman, New World	p. 179
The Conditions of Reform	p. 200
Organizing for Birth Control	p. 223
Happiness in Marriage	p. 243
Doctors and Birth Control	p. 269
A Community of Women	p. 287
Grande Dame, Grandmere	p. 311
Lobbying for Birth Control	p. 313
Same Old Deal	p. 336
Foreign Diplomacy	p. 355
From Birth Control to Family Planning	p. 371
Intermezzo	p. 396
Last Act	p. 414
Woman of the Century	p. 443
Afterword	p. 469
Notes	p. 493
Selected Bibliography	p. 617
Acknowledgments	p. 637
Index	p. 641
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