Sanger, Margaret 1879-1966

Overview

Works:	594 works in 1,406 publications in 10 languages and 36,495 library holdings
Genres:	Biography History Periodicals Autobiographies Conference papers and proceedings Anecdotes Popular works Sources Archives Handbooks and manuals
Subject Headings:
Roles:	Author, Editor, Speaker
Classifications:	HQ764.S3, B

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Margaret Sanger

Woman of valor : Margaret Sanger and the birth control movement in America by Ellen Chesler( Book )
The birth of the pill : how four crusaders reinvented sex and launched a revolution by Jonathan Eig( Book )
Margaret Sanger; pioneer of the future by Emily Taft Douglas( Book )
Birth control in America : the career of Margaret Sanger by David M Kennedy( Book )
Margaret Sanger : a life of passion by Jean H Baker( Book )

Margaret Sanger : an autobiography by Margaret Sanger( Book )
Margaret Sanger : a biography of the champion of birth control by Madeline Gray( Book )
100 most important women of the 20th century by Kevin Markey( Book )
Terrible virtue : a novel by Ellen Feldman( Book )
A life of one's own; three gifted women and the men they married by Joan Dash( Book )
The woman rebel : the Margaret Sanger story by Peter Bagge( Book )
The selected papers of Margaret Sanger by Margaret Sanger( Book )
The Margaret Sanger story and the fight for birth control by Lawrence Lader( Book )
Contraceptive diplomacy : reproductive politics and imperial ambitions in the United States and Japan by Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci( )
Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger by Margaret Sanger( )
My fight for birth control by Margaret Sanger( Book )
Margaret Sanger's eugenic legacy : the control of female fertility by Angela Franks( Book )
Margaret Sanger : her life in her words by Miriam Reed( Book )
The logic of women on trial : case studies of popular American trials by Janice E Schuetz( Book )
Margaret Sanger by Amy Witherbee( )

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Most widely held works by Margaret Sanger

The pivot of civilization by Margaret Sanger( )

50 editions published between 1922 and 2018 in English and held by 2,482 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Margaret Sanger's attempt to broaden the still-radical idea of birth control beyond its socialist and feminist roots. Moving away from a single-minded focus on women's reproductive rights to the larger issue of the general health and economic prosperity of the whole human race, Sanger argued that birth control was pivotal to a rational approach toward dealing with the threat of overpopulation and its ruinous consequences in poverty and disease. Through this book Sanger hoped to persuade the medical establishment to assume control over contraceptive distribution, and thereby to lessen the religious, legal, and moral opposition that continued to restrict access to contraceptive information. However important this book is to the history of women's rights, it remains a very problematic work from our more scientifically informed perspective today. In arguing for population control Sanger made frequent reference to the then fashionable "science" of eugenics. She also adopted its rhetoric, using such callous phrases as "the feeble-minded" and the "unfit" and advocating birth control as a means of limiting the breeding of "defectives, delinquents and dependents." Although she incorporated views and terminology commonly held in respectable medical and scientific circles of the day, Sanger's writings on eugenics, and this book in particular, have become fodder for her critics both on the left and the right, who seek to diminish her achievements and obscure what is ultimately a powerful feminist message: when women gain greater control over their fertility, they will improve the human race

Woman and the new race by Margaret Sanger( Book )

51 editions published between 1920 and 2017 in English and Undetermined and held by 927 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The chronicle of Sanger's decades-long battle to legalize and develop information on the prevention of venereal disease and then methods of birth control, during which she endured indictment, exile and prison

Motherhood in bondage by Margaret Sanger( Book )

30 editions published between 1928 and 2018 in English and Undetermined and held by 743 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Margaret Sanger (1883-1966) was a leading figure in the American birth control movement. In Motherhood in Bondage, first published in 1928, Sanger reproduced letters written to her from women and sometimes men from all over the country, in both urban and rural areas, who were seeking advice on reproductive matters and marital relations, but mostly imploring her to help them find ways to avoid more pregnancies. The letters are grouped by theme into sixteen chapters, and Sanger wrote an introduction to each chapter. In her new foreword for this edition, Margaret Marsh describes the controversies surrounding these letters and places them in their historical context."--Jacket

Ograniczenie ... Liczby Dzieci by Margaret Sanger( )

73 editions published between 1900 and 2014 in 4 languages and held by 621 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Margaret Sanger started the Birth Control movement in America. She has been praised as a hero by some and damned as a villain by others. Read the surprising explicit book written by her in 1917!" -- Back cover

Happiness in marriage by Margaret Sanger( Book )

32 editions published between 1920 and 2017 in English and Urdu and held by 553 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Margaret Sanger, mother of the birth control movement in America, published this marriage manual in 1926. In the book, which was one of the first of its kind allowed to be sold, Ms. Sanger offers practical and intimate advice for achieving the ideal relationship. Today, more than 60 years later, her advice is both valuable and thoroughly modern."--P. [4] of cover

Margaret Sanger : an autobiography by Margaret Sanger( Book )

14 editions published between 1938 and 2004 in English and Undetermined and held by 481 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Story of a remarkable life and the history of a movement

The birth control review( )

in English and held by 308 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The new motherhood by Margaret Sanger( Book )

17 editions published between 1922 and 1970 in English and German and held by 255 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

What every girl should know by Margaret Sanger( Book )

41 editions published between 1900 and 2016 in 5 languages and held by 197 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Woman Rebel( Book )

3 editions published in 1976 in English and held by 176 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A szülések korlátozása. A hatodik bovitett kiasás után by Margaret Sanger( )

3 editions published in 1917 in Hungarian and held by 174 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Proceedings of the World Population Conference, held at the Salle centrale, Geneva, August 29th to September 3rd, 1927 by World Population Conference( Book )

12 editions published between 1927 and 1930 in English and held by 171 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

What every boy and girl should know by Margaret Sanger( Book )

7 editions published between 1927 and 1969 in English and held by 168 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

[Reports and papers] by International Neo-Malthusian and Birth Control Conference( Book )

8 editions published in 1925 in English and held by 151 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Woman rebel( )

in English and held by 150 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Round the world for birth control with margaret sanger and edith how-martyn : an account of an international tour by Birth Control International Information Centre (Great Britain)( )

5 editions published in 1936 in English and held by 125 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The practice of contraception; an international symposium and survey by Margaret Higgins Sanger( Book )

12 editions published between 1931 and 1992 in English and held by 124 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Bevat bijdragen over geboortenregeling en abortus in diverse landen, o.a. de tekst van een lezing door H. de Wolf, getiteld 'Birth control work in Holland', p.272

Large or small families? : legitimate methods of birth-control by George H Swasey( Book )

1 edition published in 1919 in English and held by 119 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Birth Control Review( )

in English and held by 98 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

What every mother should know, or, How six little children were taught the truth by Margaret Sanger( Book )

15 editions published between 1911 and 1925 in English and Multiple languages and held by 81 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"The following articles were put into story form for the mother so as to enable her to make the truth and facts just as interesting to a child's imagination as possible."--Page [4]

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