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Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger
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David M. Kennedy

Table of contents :
Frontmatter
Preface (page vii)
List of Abbreviations (page xv)
1. The Woman Rebel (page 1)
2. The Nineteenth-Century Heritage: The Family, Feminism, and Sex (page 36)
3. The Organization of a Social Movement (page 72)
4. Revolution and Repression: The Changing Ideology (page 108)
5. Margaret Sanger, Sexuality, and Feminism (page 127)
6. The Debate on Morality (page 136)
7. Birth Control and American Medicine (page 172)
8. Birth Control and the Law (page 218)
9. The Fruits of Rebellion (page 272)
Bibliographical Essay (page 277)
Selected Bibliography (page 294)
Index (page 307)

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BIRTH CONTROL IN AMERICA THE CAREER OF MARGARET SANGER

David M. Kennedy

New Haven and London, Yale University Press

Copyright @ 1970 by Yale University. Second printing, March 1971

All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, in any form (except by reviewers for the public press), without written permission from the publishers. Library of Congress catalog card number: 79-99827 ISBN: 0-300-01202-0 (cloth), o-300-01495-3 (paper) Designed by John O. C. McCrillis, set in Baskerville type,

and printed in the United States of America by The Colonial Press Inc., Clinton, Massachusetts. Distributed in Great Britain, Europe, and Africa by Yale University Press, Ltd., London; in Canada by McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal; in Mexico by Centro Interamericano de Libros Académicos,

Mexico City; in Central and South America by Kaiman & Polon, Inc., New York City; in Australasia by Australia and New Zealand Book Co., Pty., Ltd., Artarmon, New South Wales; in India by UBS Publishers’ Distributors Pvt., Ltd., Delhi; in Japan by John Weatherhill, Inc., ‘Tokyo.

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