Motherhood in bondage / by Margaret Sanger ; foreword by Margaret Marsh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966.

Series:

Women & health (Columbus, Ohio)

Women and health

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Birth control.

Pregnancy.

Women--United States--Social conditions.

Women.

United States.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

liii, 446 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2000]

Summary:

Margaret Sanger (1883-1966) 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.

Contents:

Foreword / Margaret Marsh

Introduction: Explaining Source of Material, Significance, General Survey and Introduction, Calling Attention to Variety of Points Taken Up in Each Successive Chapter

I. Girl Mothers

II. The Pinch of Poverty

III. The Trap of Maternity

IV. The Struggle of the Unfit

V. "The Sins of the Fathers"

VI. Wasted Efforts

VII. Double Slavery

VIII. Voices of the Children

IX. The Two Generations

X. Solitary Confinement

XI. The Husband's Own Story

XII. Marital Relations

XIII. Methods That Fail

XIV. Self-imposed Continence and Separation

XV. The Doctor Warns - but Does Not Tell

XVI. Desperate Remedies

XVII. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

XVIII. Conclusion.

Notes:

Selections from letters sent to Mrs. Sanger by mothers in the United States and Canada.

Originally published: New York : Brentano's, 1928.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0814208371

081425036X

OCLC:

43930112