Motherhood in Bondage: Foreword by Margaret Marsh - Paperback
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Motherhood in Bondage: Foreword by Margaret Marsh - Paperback
$50.31
by Margaret Sanger (Author), Margaret Marsh (Foreword by)
Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) was a leading figure in the American birth control movement. Trained as a nurse, she moved to New York City to work among the poor. Having witnessed firsthand the travails of mothers in the city's poorest neighborhoods, she felt the need to provide them with information on reproduction and contraception. She abandoned her nursing career and devoted the rest of her life to disseminating information on women's reproduction and contraception, publishing books and articles and founding birth control clinics.
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. With clear relevance to the current post-Roe moment, these pleas to Sanger for advice on avoiding unwanted pregnancy dramatically detail the desperation for reproductive agency when birth control was unknown, withheld, or otherwise inaccessible. In her foreword for this edition, Margaret Marsh describes the controversies surrounding these letters and places them in their historical context.Author Biography
Margaret Marsh is a historian who specializes in issues of gender. She has been chronicling the history of infertility, reproductive medicine and technology for three decades. With her sister, Wanda Ronner, she is the author of The Pursuit of Parenthood: From Test-Tube Babies to Uterus Transplants and two other books. Marsh is a professor of history at Rutgers University.
Number of Pages: 446
Dimensions: 1.12 x 8.25 x 5.5 IN
Publication Date: October 01, 1999
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