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Woman of valor : Margaret Sanger and the birth control movement in America / Ellen Chesler.

Chesler, Ellen. (Author).

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  • ISBN: 9781416540762
  • ISBN: 1416540768
  • Physical Description: 667 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster trade pbk. ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2007.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"With a new afterword by the author"--Cover. (p. [469]-492)
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 617-635) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Part 1 Woman Rebel 19 -- 1 Ghosts 21 -- 2 Love and Work 44 -- 3 Seeds of Rebellion 56 -- 4 Personal Is Political 74 -- 5 Bohemia and Beyond 89 -- 6 A European Education 105 -- 7 Frenzy of Renown 128 -- 8 Company She Kept 150 -- Part 2 Lady Reformer 177 -- 9 New Woman, New World 179 -- 10 Conditions of Reform 200 -- 11 Organizing for Birth Control 223 -- 12 Happiness in Marriage 243 -- 13 Doctors and Birth Control 269 -- 14 A Community of Women 287 -- Part 3 Grande Dame, Grandmere 311 -- 15 Lobbying for Birth Control 313 -- 16 Same Old Deal 336 -- 17 Foreign Diplomacy 355 -- 18 From Birth Control to Family Planning 371 -- 19 Intermezzo 396 -- 20 Last Act 414 -- 21 Woman of the Century 443.
Subject: Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966.
Birth control > United States > History.
Women social reformers > United States > Biography.
Genre: Biographies.

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