Margaret Sanger's Eugenic Legacy: The Control of Female Fertility / Edition 1

by Angela Franks

Overview

Margaret Sanger, the American birth-control and population-control advocate who founded Planned Parenthood, stands like a giant among her contemporaries. With her dominating yet winning personality, she helped generate shifts of opinion on issues that were not even publicly discussed prior to her activism, while her leadership was arguably the single most important factor in achieving social and legislative victories that set the parameters for today's political discussion of family-planning funding, population-control aid, and even sex education.

This work addresses Sanger's ideas concerning birth control, eugenics, population control, and sterilization against the backdrop of the larger eugenic context.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786420117
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	02/11/2005
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	359
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.72(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Angela Franks lives in Allston, Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments     
Introduction: Taking Sanger Seriously     
1. Woman and the New Race     
2. Eugenics as the Control of Births     
3. Eugenicists, Coworkers, Friends     
4. Quality, Not Quantity: Population Control and Eugenics     
5. Money Means Power: The Rich Have Their Say     
6. “Sterilize All the Unfit!”     
7. Selling Out the Sisterhood     
8. Beyond Control: Toward a New Feminism     
Apppendix 1: List of Abbreviations     
Appendix 2: Chronology     

Chapter Notes     
Works Consulted     
Index     

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a critical piece of scholarship...thorough...an admirable job...highly recommended”—Choice; “eye-opening and thoroughly documented...extensive”—Touchstone.

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a critical piece of scholarship...thorough...an admirable job...highly recommended

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