My fight for birth control / by Margaret Sanger.

Margaret Sanger recounts her life from early childhood until 1931, when a victory in her fight for the legalization of birth control in the U.S. seems near. The account of the highs and lows suffered in forging an organized movement devoted to planned parenthood is highly personal.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Jack and Susan Davis Rare Book Collection.
Main Author: Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar & Rinehart, Incorporated, [1931], [©1931]
Series:Jack and Susan Davis Rare Book Collection.
Subjects:
Birth control.
Inscriptions (Provenance)
Genre:
Inscriptions (Provenance)
Ownership and Custodial History:
Copy 2 : Previous owner's name stamped in ink on recto of front fly-leaf: "Chas. H. Denniston." Penciled notes pertaining to the book on page 360 and covering the recto of rear fly-leaf.
Local Note:
MSU: Copy 2 gift of Jack and Susan Davis.
MSU: Copy 2 in dust jacket.
Physical Description:vii, 360 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Background
  • Marriage and motherhood
  • Awakening and revolt
  • Europe before the war
  • The woman rebel
  • Indicted
  • Exile
  • Holland
  • The exile returns
  • The first victory
  • Clinics the goal
  • A "public nuisance"
  • Hunger strike
  • Courts and jails
  • Laying the foundation: 1918-1921
  • New skirmishes
  • Town hall
  • Arrogance in power
  • Japan
  • China
  • International awakening, 1922
  • 1925: International conference, New York City
  • Scientists' interests
  • Clinics and the law
  • Parting of the ways
  • Survey: 1930-1931
  • The way to the end
  • Appendix A. Statement by Dr. Mary Halton
  • Appendix B. Birth control clinics in the United States
  • Appendix C. Extract of the report on birth control of the Committee on Marriage and the Home of the Federal Council of the Church of Christ in America
  • Appendix D. Summary of the resolutions adopted by the New York Academy of Medicine.