Margaret Sanger

Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. She is best known for founding the birth control movement in the United States and opening the first birth control clinic in 1916. Her advocacy led to the establishment of organizations that would eventually evolve into Planned Parenthood. Sanger also authored several works, including "Family Limitation" and "The Pivot of Civilization," which supported reproductive rights and women's health.

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CHAPTER I: A New Truth Emerges Be not ashamed, women, your privilege encloses therest, and is the exit of the rest,You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates ofthe soul. —Walt Whitman This book aims to be neither the first word on the tangled problems of human society to-day, nor the last. My aim has been to emphasize, by the use of concrete and challenging examples and neglected facts, the... more...

PREFACE The modern Woman Movement, like the modern Labour Movement, may be said to have begun in the Eighteenth century. The Labour movement arose out of the Industrial Revolution with its resultant tendency to over-population, to unrestricted competition, to social misery and disorder. The Woman movement appeared as an at first neglected by-product of the French Revolution with its impulses of general... more...

INTRODUCTION. There is no need for any one to explain to the working men and women in America what this pamphlet is written for or why it is necessary that they should have this information. They know better than I could tell them, so I shall not try. I have tried to give the knowledge of the best French and Dutch physicians translated into the simplest English, that all may easily understand. There... more...