San Antonio College Library

Margaret Sanger went to jail in 1917 for distributing contraceptives to immigrant women in a makeshift clinic in Brooklyn. She died a half-century later, just after the Supreme Court guaranteed constitutional protection for the use of contraceptives. Now, Ellen Chesler provides the first authoritative biography of this great emancipator, whose lifelong struggle helped women gain control over their own bodies. An idealist who mastered practical politics,...

Looks at conventional ideologies of population control - from Malthusianism to the contraceptive revolution. Provides an alternative analysis of 'overpopulation' - exploring the roots of the environmental crisis, violence and inequality en route.