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The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger, Volume 4: Round the World for Birth Control, 1920-1966
Contributor(s): Sanger, Margaret (Author), Katz, Esther (Editor), Hajo, Cathy Moran (Editor)
ISBN: 0252040384     ISBN-13: 9780252040382
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
OUR PRICE:   $123.75  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: October 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Medical | History
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- Social Science | Abortion & Birth Control
Dewey: 363.960
Physical Information: 1.9" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (2.50 lbs) 720 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
 
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When Margaret Sanger returned to Europe in 1920, World War I had altered the social landscape as dramatically as it had the map of Europe. Population concerns, sexuality, venereal disease, and contraceptive use had entered public discussion, and Sanger's birth control message found receptive audiences around the world.

This volume focuses on Sanger from her groundbreaking overseas advocacy during the interwar years through her postwar role in creating the International Planned Parenthood Federation. The documents reconstruct Sanger's dramatic birth control advocacy tours through early 1920s Germany, Japan, and China in the midst of significant government and religious opposition to her ideas. They also trace her tireless efforts to build a global movement through international conferences and tours. Letters, journal entries, writings, and other records reveal Sanger's contentious dealings with other activists, her correspondence with the likes of Albert Einstein and Eleanor Roosevelt, and Sanger's own dramatic evolution from gritty grassroots activist to postwar power broker and diplomat.

A powerful documentary history of a transformative twentieth-century figure, The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger, Volume 4 is a primer for the debates on individual choice, sex education, and planned parenthood that remain all-too-pertinent in our own time.