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The icon & the idealist : Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the rivalry that brought birth control to America / Stephanie Gorton.

Gorton, Stephanie, 1984- (author.).

Summary:

"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." -- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780063036291
ISBN: 0063036290
Physical Description: 458 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024]
Copyright: ©2024

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 424-444) and index (pages 445-458).

Formatted Contents Note:

Part I: Sex education -- Mamie Ware -- Maggie Higgins -- This nefarious business -- A butterfly on the wheel -- The road to 81 Singer Street -- Rebel women -- Twilight sleep -- Naughty pamphlets -- Forbidden knowledge -- Matters of the heart -- Facing the inexorable -- Part II: Fighting for control -- The lawbreaker -- What are people for? -- A Washington debut -- Traitorous days -- Digging trenches, sharpening knives -- The limits of solidarity -- New beginnings -- Protoplasm -- Flaming youth -- The agony of defeat -- Part III: The wandering path to victory -- The inferno -- An untimely raid -- A strange spectacle -- Drought, grasshoppers, and babies -- War in the air -- Eight miles north -- Breakthrough -- Epilogue.