The icon & the idealist : Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the rivalry that brought birth control to America
(2024)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
363.960973/GORTON,S

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 363.960973/GORTON,S Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024]
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

458 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780063036291, 0063036290 :, 0063036290, 9780063036291
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"In the 1910s, as the birth control movement was born, two leaders emerged: Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett. While Sanger would go on to found Planned Parenthood, Dennett's name has largely faded from public knowledge. Each held a radically different vision for what reproductive autonomy and birth control access should look like in America ... Meticulously researched and vividly drawn, [this book] reveals how and why these two women came to activism, the origins of the clash between them, and the ways in which their missteps and breakthroughs have reverberated across American society for generations"--

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