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Keep Her Body from Pain and Her Mind from Worry

A reading list tracing the history of the birth control movement through novels.

by Stephanie Gorton via HNN on November 19, 2024
Editorial Visions

When editors believed their magazines could change lives.

by Stephanie Gorton via Lapham’s Quarterly on March 30, 2020

The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America

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The Battle for Birth Control Could Have Gone Differently

Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett each had a different vision of reproductive freedom. Would reproductive rights be more secure if Dennett’s had prevailed?

by Joanna Scutts via The New Republic on January 3, 2025

Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennet

The Frenemies Who Fought to Bring Birth Control to the U.S.

Though Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett shared a mission, they took very different approaches. Their rivalry was political, sometimes even personal.

by Margaret Talbot via The New Yorker on November 18, 2024

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