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The icon & the idealist : Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the rivalry that brought birth control to America  Cover Image Book Book

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

Record details

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

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 424-444) and index.
Summary, etc.:
"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.
Subject: Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966.
Dennett, Mary Ware, 1872-1947.
Women social reformers > United States.
Reproductive rights > United States > History.
Birth control > United States > History.
Contraceptives > United States > History.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Wolcott Public Library.

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Wolcott Public Library 363.9 GORT (Text) 34031157094819 Adult New Nonfiction Available -


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