Women’s Reproductive Rights Autobiography by Margaret Sanger, 1938

Margaret Sanger

First Edition

Sanger, Margaret. Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography, 1938, records the life of a leading birth-control activist whose nursing work, public campaigns, and legal confrontations made contraception a central issue in twentieth-century women’s health reform. Sanger’s account supports research into reproductive-rights advocacy, feminist reform, public-health activism, and the contested politics of contraception before midcentury legal change.

Sanger, Margaret. Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1938. Stated first edition. 504 pages, blue boards with gilt spine lettering, original unclipped dust jacket with Sanger portrait, protected in mylar, 8vo. The autobiography traces Sanger’s childhood in a large Irish American family in Corning, New York, her care for her ill mother, financial hardship, education, nursing, and emergence as an advocate for birth control. Planned Parenthood notes that Sanger’s mother’s health after many pregnancies and Sanger’s nursing work on New York’s Lower East Side shaped her birth-control activism.

Sanger’s memoir appeared after decades of activism against laws restricting contraceptive information; PBS describes her campaign as a direct challenge to Comstock-era prohibitions on birth-control education and devices. Dust jacket with light wear and minor chipping at top and bottom of spine, not price clipped, binding tight, text and pages crisp and clear; overall very good condition. A handsome first edition autobiography documenting one of the central figures in American contraception and women’s health reform.

Item #21493

Price: $485.00