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Title: Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography by Margaret Sanger, Kathryn Cullen-Dupont ISBN: 0-8154-1015-8 Publisher: Cooper Square Press Pub. Date: November, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2 (4 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: The Repackaging of Margaret Sanger
Comment: Don't expect an accurate depiction of Sanger from this propaganda piece. Save yourself a lot of time and read the following quotes if you're really interested in finding out what kind of woman Margaret Sanger really was and what type of agenda she promoted for America:
On the extermination of blacks:
"We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population," she said, "if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members." Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America, by Linda Gordon
On abortion:
"The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." Margaret Sanger, Women and the New Race (Eugenics Publ. Co., 1920, 1923)
On the right of married couples to bear children:
"Couples should be required to submit applications to have a child." -- Margaret Sanger "Plan for Peace." (Birth Control Review, April 1932)
Rating: 1
Summary: a continued killer of many
Comment: Margaret Sanger was no better than Hitler with her population control. She chose to focus on control because she was one of many children from her family and obviously did not get enough attention. Now she focuses on being selfish. Most of us have children because we love them. For those who have abortions, they need to stay out of other peoples beds if they can't handle the responsibility or the unselfishness of having a child or children.
Rating: 2
Summary: Sanger Was A Strategist, but a Racist
Comment: In reviewing Sanger's autobiography, there is a difficult balance to manage.
On one hand, Sanger had a genuine desire to reduce unwanted births and, indirectly, reduce the population of the poor and mistreated.
On the other hand is the ungirdings of her beliefs: that African-Americans were second-class citizens. Backing what she believed was a growing acceptance of eugenics, that to have a better world, the population needed to be genetically purer. For Sanger, not too different that Hitler, this meant encouraging abortions among African-Americans.
To read Sanger's auto-biography alone might mislead the reader into believing her views were founded in cleanly laid-out welfare theories and of women's rights. That was part of it... but deeper still... and the reason I'm not comfortable fully recommending this book... is her core racial prejudice under the guise of freedom.
I understand my review might offend fans of Sanger, but read it in context.
Pick up George Grant's book on it... get past his over-emphasis on his own conservative views, and read his analysis of her own comments. Better yet... if you can find one, read Doug Scott's "Bad Choices" expose of the founding and practices of Planned Parenthood. Again, exceedingly conservative and not for the close-minded, but his citations of Sanger's letters and official documents are astounding and alarming.
Anthony Trendl
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Title: The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic by Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, Margaret Sanger ISBN: 158742004X Publisher: Inkling Books Pub. Date: 30 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger by David M. Kennedy ISBN: 0300014953 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: June, 1970 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Killer Angel: A Short Biography of Planned Parenthood's Founder, Margaret Sanger by George Grant ISBN: 1581821506 Publisher: Highland Books Pub. Date: February, 2001 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America by Ellen Chesler ISBN: 0671600885 Publisher: Summit Books Pub. Date: June, 1992 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Living My Life, Vol. 1 by Emma Goldman ISBN: 0486225437 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1970 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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