Eekind’s Reviews > 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 > Status Update

The Twilight Sleep section was super interesting. Especially since it became a American feminist goal to bring the medication from Europe help avoid the pain of childbirth in 1903, basically only took hold in the US in 1910s because white supremacists saw it as a way to get more WASPS to have babies and medical groups saw it as a way to diminish patient and family scrutiny around obstetrics and labor+delivery

Reading another fiction book that gets turn of the century women’s healthcare so bad I have to go to a biographical source to vent my frustrations

Loved the context of Diaphragms, Lysol Douches and Sponges existing in 1900 but being a middle class good that working class people that needed them couldn’t afford. Definitely underscores how much Sanger worked to promote access to goods for impoverished immigrants

I am very excited about the lens and focus of this dual biography. I am interested in learning more about birth control prior to the 60’s. the framing of this book seems to be well suited to deal with the legal work these women’s did to make birth control materials more accessible while still acknowledging the bias, racism and eugenics that did creep into these women’s professional sphere