Add to ORKGIt is nearly impossible to read the news in the United States today without hearing the name Planned Parenthood, but few Americans know about the origins of this organization. Margaret Sanger founded the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau, the precursor to Planned Parenthood, in 1923, but this was not the first time she opened a clinic. In this paper, I assess Margaret Sanger’s 1916 opening of the Brownsville Clinic, the first birth control clinic in the United States, and the responses to this event from multiple historical perspectives. I use historical newspapers to demonstrate how popular media, legal experts, and laywomen viewed the Brownsville Clinic, Sanger, and her mission. In the papers, Sanger and her followers are depicted al...
This paper is on the historiography of Margaret Sanger and the Eugenics Movement of the early 20th c...
By the beginning of the twentieth century, the development of better contraceptives and changing cul...
Mary Jo Huth, who holds her doctoral degree from St. Louis University, is chairman of the Department...
It is a story many of us know well. As historian Linda Gordon explained nearly thirty years ago, in ...
While Margaret Sanger made great strides in the crusade for legalization and open access to birth co...
Birth control advocate Margaret Sanger (MS) was, and still is, both revered and reviled for her effo...
Thesis (M.A.)--Humboldt State University, Social Science, Emphasis - Teaching American History, 2006...
The Reproductive Rights Movement has, throughout its history, been heavily affected by public percep...
Margaret Sanger\u27s rhetoric in the US birth control movement demonstrates the social forces that a...
Many religious leaders in the early 1900s were afraid of the immoral associations and repercussions ...
274 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002.My dissertation, a social and...
In both Britain and the United States, the interwar years witnessed the formation of a new organized...
The history of the birth control movement in the United States is traditionally told through account...
This book is signed by Margaret Sanger, advocate for contraception and one of the founders of organi...
From banned condoms and spermicide to today’s pills everyone has a right to, birth control has faced...
This paper is on the historiography of Margaret Sanger and the Eugenics Movement of the early 20th c...
By the beginning of the twentieth century, the development of better contraceptives and changing cul...
Mary Jo Huth, who holds her doctoral degree from St. Louis University, is chairman of the Department...
It is a story many of us know well. As historian Linda Gordon explained nearly thirty years ago, in ...
While Margaret Sanger made great strides in the crusade for legalization and open access to birth co...
Birth control advocate Margaret Sanger (MS) was, and still is, both revered and reviled for her effo...
Thesis (M.A.)--Humboldt State University, Social Science, Emphasis - Teaching American History, 2006...
The Reproductive Rights Movement has, throughout its history, been heavily affected by public percep...
Margaret Sanger\u27s rhetoric in the US birth control movement demonstrates the social forces that a...
Many religious leaders in the early 1900s were afraid of the immoral associations and repercussions ...
274 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002.My dissertation, a social and...
In both Britain and the United States, the interwar years witnessed the formation of a new organized...
The history of the birth control movement in the United States is traditionally told through account...
This book is signed by Margaret Sanger, advocate for contraception and one of the founders of organi...
From banned condoms and spermicide to today’s pills everyone has a right to, birth control has faced...
This paper is on the historiography of Margaret Sanger and the Eugenics Movement of the early 20th c...
By the beginning of the twentieth century, the development of better contraceptives and changing cul...
Mary Jo Huth, who holds her doctoral degree from St. Louis University, is chairman of the Department...