Read millions of eBooks and audiobooks on the web, iPad, iPhone and Android. After college, she took nurse training in New York, and after a short teaching career, she practiced obstetrician nursing on the Lower East Side of the city, where she witnessed poverty, uncontrolled fertility, high rates of maternal and infant mortality, and death from illegal. Her battles brought a world of troubles - arrest, indictment, and exile among them - but ultimately she triumphed, opening the first American birth control clinic in 1916 and serving as the first president of the International Planned Parenthood Federation in 1953.Ī fascinating firsthand account of an early crusade for women's healthcare, this autobiography is a classic of women's studies and social reform. Read Margaret Sanger An Autobiography by Margaret Sanger with a free trial. Margaret Sanger was the founder of the birth control movement in the USA and an international leader in the field. She argues that women have the responsibility of preventing unwanted pregnancies because working families cannot afford to support large families. Sanger resolved to dedicate her life to establishing birth control as a basic human right. In the introduction, Sanger addresses her audience as working women and men in America, with a primary focus on women. Women already overwhelmed by the burdens of poverty had no recourse their doctors were either ignorant of effective methods of birth control or were unwilling to risk defying the law. Margaret Sanger was born Septem(she would gradually take several years off her birthday, ending up in 1884) in Corning, N.Y. While working as a nurse amid the squalor of New York's Lower East Side in the early twentieth century, Margaret Sanger witnessed the devastating effects of unwanted pregnancies. "A moving story of action - direct, forceful, and plain-spoken.…It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of this autobiography." - Saturday Review of Literature.
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