the politics of planned parenthood, 1939-1966
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Sanger, Margaret
- Creator
- Katz, Esther > (ed.)
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 SAN 2010
- Thesaurus
- geboorteregeling, pil, mensenrechten, sociale bewegingen, gezondheidszorg, tweede wereldoorlog, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, brief, bundel
- Description
- Volume 3 of the selected Papers of Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) highlights Sanger's quest for the 'magic pill', the non-barrier method of birth control she had envisioned since the early 1930s. These letters and other writings tell the story of Sanger's collaboration with the philanthropist Katharine Dexter McCormick and their direction of scientists, physicians, and birth control bureaucrats towards the production of the first contraceptive pill. This volume also chronicles Sanger's attempt to guide the American birth control movement during World War II and its immediate aftermath, and it documents her efforts to expand birth control services to African Americans in the rural South and to incorporate contraceptive health care into state and federal public health programs.