Woman of Valor
Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America
$59.91
- Paperback
672 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2007
Summary
This illuminating biography of Margaret Sanger—the woman who fought for birth control in America—describes her childhood, her private life, her relationships with Emma Goldman and John Reed, her public role, and more.
Margaret Sanger went to jail in 1917 for distributing contraceptives to immigrant women in a makeshift clinic in Brooklyn. She died a half-century later, just after the Supreme Court guaranteed constitutional protection for the use of contraceptives. Now, Ellen Chesler p…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781416540762 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1416540768 |
| Author: | Ellen Chesler |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Simon Spotlight Entertainment |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 672 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2007 |
| Weight: | 934g |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 156mm x 235mm |
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Critics Review
“Authoritative, readable and rippling with the energy of the life it conveys.” – Daniel J. Kevles, The New York Times Book Review
“The Sanger portrayed by Chesler is compelling, and persuasively counters the tendency of earlier biographers to either eulogize or condemn…Chesler’s exhaustive scholarship has yielded not only a fuller picture of Sanger but new knowledge about the history of birth control.” – Rosalind Pollack Petchesky, Boston Sunday Globe
“Woman of Valor’s chief virtue is a sweeping and authoritative grasp not only of Sanger’s life but of the political detail and maneuvering behind it.” – Ruth Brandon, The Washington Post Book World
“Chesler illuminates Sanger’s rich personal and public life with a sophisticated understanding of psychology and history, yet the book reads like a good novel.” – Sylvia A. Law, Professor of Law, New York University
“A major contribution to women’s history.” – Library Journal
Ellen Chesler
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.
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