Margeret Sanger

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This paper is a biography on the life of Margaret Singer, a woman who developed a vibrant sexual and philosophical independence in the years leading up to World War I. The paper discusses Sanger's childhood influences, particularly her father, as well as her educational background. The paper also discusses how the death of her mother was her push into becoming a nurse. It was during her time as a nurse that she became an activist for women's rights and birth control. The paper also talks about her three-pronged approach to promoting birth control in the United States: education, organization, and legislation. Furthermore, the paper discusses Sanger's novel, "The Woman Rebel", a crusade for birth control that would develop into one of the major reform movements of the twentieth century and fundamentally alter women's sexual, reproductive and professional lives forever. The paper looks at her criminal trial, exile and ultimate outstanding influence on feminism.

From the Paper:

"The publication of The Woman Rebel laid the foundation for the future work of the birth control movement and the personal crusade of Margaret Sanger. She continued to challenge the Comstock Laws by opening the nation's first birth control clinic in Brownsville, Brooklyn in 1916, founding a new monthly, the Birth Control Review in 1917, and by organizing the first American birth control conference in New York in 1921 (Margaret). Sanger founded the American Birth Control League that same year, and by 1923 opened the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau, the prototype for a national network of doctor-staffed clinics that sprang up around the country in the 1920s and 1930s (Knowles)."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Knowles, John. The Truth About Margaret Sanger. October 2004. Planned Parenthood. 22 March 2006 <http://www.plannedparenthood.org/pp2/portal/medicalinfo/birthcontrol/bio-margaret-sanger.xml>.
• Margaret Sanger's Paper Project. August 2005. New York University. 22 March 2006 <http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/>.
• Sanger, Margaret. Margaret Sanger: An autobiography. New York: Dover Publications, 1971.
• UXL Biographies. Women's History: Margaret Sanger. UXL. 1996.

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