Margaret Sanger: Her Life in Her Words

by Margaret Sanger Lampe (Foreword)

This book includes Sanger's writings on marriage and children, the labor movement, socialism, prison reform, pacifism, eugenics, and sex education. The documents illustrate Sanger's impact on these issues, the development of the struggle between the working class and middle class, and the clash between conservative mores and the freethinking women that have shaped today's society. It features the original articles Nothing and What Every Girl Should Know from The New York Call which sparked the ongoing struggle for women's reproductive freedom.

Genres: Nonfiction, Biography, History, Memoir

288 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2003

Reviews

[Carol D · Rating 5 out of 5]

I actually started this book a few months back, when I borrowed it from my library the first time. I re-borrowed it a week or two after, a second time. I love biographies because it's a historical look at a time period long past through the eyes of a person contemporary to that era. Ms. Sanger herself is portrayed as a very complex human who very much knew what she wanted to do and never stopped focusing on that passion. She is also an excellent example of that unending spirit that never gives up.

A few parts had me cringing in response to some of her attitudes toward certain challenged segments of a society, but it was also very much in keeping with a woman of her time. All in all it was a fascinating personalized history as lived by Margaret Sanger. It had me enthralled enough, I've also gotten the Kindle version too. I'd just rather hold an actual book.