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The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America – A Political History of Reproductive Freedom
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Stephanie Gorton (Goodreads Author)

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This book is interestingly paced when it comes to divergent reproductive health topics. I have really enjoyed all the in depth historical information about birth control practices and education that existed in the 1910’s but then we’ll get to topics like Eugenics and it feels like Gorton is grasping to find a foothold to retrace eugenics thought to where she had otherwise left Dennett and Sanger chronologically

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First lines | "In a brooklyn courtroom on Tuesday, April 23, 1929, the judge and jury heard the case of fifty-seven-year-old Mary Ware Dennett. Peering brightly through her glasses, Dennett was determined to fight the charge leveled against her: a federal indictment for obscenity."

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