What Margaret Sanger Really Said About Eugenics and Race

As Gloria Steinem pointed out in a 1998 essay for TIME, Sanger’s embrace of the eugenics rhetoric may have been less a ...
insider.si.edu

A history of the birth control movement in America / Peter C. Engelman

This work tells the story of a group of reformers dedicated to making contraception legal, accessible, and acceptable. It details how Margaret Sanger's campaign beginning in 1914 to challenge anti ...
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Birth control misinformation spreads as right-wing influencers promote higher birth rates

Posts urging women to stop using traditional oral contraceptives are exploding online, in part due to influencers promoting them with hashtags like #stopthepill, #hormonefree and #naturalbirthcontrol.
The New York Times

Birth Control’s (First) Civil War

In “The Icon and the Idealist,” Stephanie Gorton tells the story of two women who fought a patriarchal system — and each other. By Clara Bingham Clara Bingham’s most recent book is “The Movement: How ...
The Gazette

Review: Soap opera-worthy book traces how a century-old feud over birth control affects us to this day

Hey, writer-director-producer Ryan Murphy, if you’re looking for subjects for future installments of TV’s “Feud” franchise, the clash between turn-of-the-last-century birth control activists Margaret ...
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Bell Ringer: Margaret Sanger and the History of the Birth Control Movement

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Margaret Sanger discussed what influenced her to get start the birth control movement. Archival video of Margaret Sanger, the leader of the birth ...
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As male birth control gets closer to reality, men are lining up for clinical trials

In 1987, Zurich was a hotbed of radical feminism. For three Swiss francs (close to $6 today), left-wing bookstores sold a copy of a pamphlet called “Antisexistische Schrittversuche fuer die Aufloesung ...