In this lively new biography, an historian argues convincingly that Margaret Sanger deserves the vaunted place in feminist history she once held. Baker's nuanced account of Sanger's life emphasizes the passion of her convictions.
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In this lively new biography, an historian argues convincingly that Margaret Sanger deserves the vaunted place in feminist history she once held. Baker's nuanced account of Sanger's life emphasizes the passion of her convictions.
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Margaret Sanger was born in 1879, the sixth child in an Irish Catholic family that became 11 children, six years after passage of the Comstock Act. The Act prohibited mailing of and distribution of obscene materials and at that time anything dealing with reproduction was considered obscene. Within the crowded family living conditions Sanger?s father taught her to think for herself.
Anti-choice advocates use a caricature of Sanger as propaganda against Planned Parenthood. Though portrayed as advocating abortion, Sanger saw birth control as a means to end abortions. When she is portrayed as a racist and eugenicist one must realize the importance of context. During that era of our history eugenics was advocated by presidents e.g. Theodore Roosevelt, as well as Supreme Court Justices like Oliver Wendell Holmes, and leading scientists of the time.
Professional nursing was just beginning and was one of the few professions open to women. Sanger went into nursing, especially obstetrics, though she never got a degree. At that time and continuing to the present is contested territoriality between doctors and nurses. At that time the major controversy was whether female nurses should take care of male patients because American folklore considered nurses to be promiscuous. However, there was little controversy over young women taking care of male patients with contagious diseases e.g. gonorrhea and tuberculosis. The major nursing text-book of the time, Weeks-Shaw Text-book of Nursing did not cover birth control or abortion.
The biography continues to discuss the reticence of the medical profession to endorse birth control. They had no economic interest in limiting births. In addition to doctors, the Catholic Church and other fundamentalist churches fought against provision of birth control information. The Catholic Church even directed police as they shut down meetings which Sanger arranged.
Amazingly, Sanger?s numerous affairs were not brought to light at that time. Apparently she was a free spirit when it came to sex and possessed an animal magnetism that several men couldn?t resist. However, her consistent passion, which all her lovers had to contend with, was fighting to get birth control freely available to all women.
