{"product_id":"motherhood-in-bondage-margaret-sanger-9780814250365","title":"Motherhood in Bondage: Foreword by Margaret Marsh","description":"Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) was a leading figure in the American birth control movement. Trained as a nurse, she moved to New York City to work among the poor. Having witnessed firsthand the travails of mothers in the city's poorest neighborhoods, she felt the need to provide them with information on reproduction and contraception. She abandoned her nursing career and devoted the rest of her life to disseminating information on women's reproduction and contraception, publishing books and articles and founding birth control clinics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eMotherhood in Bondage, \u003c\/i\u003e first published in 1928, Sanger reproduced letters written to her from women and sometimes men from all over the country, in both urban and rural areas, who were seeking advice on reproductive matters and marital relations, but mostly imploring her to help them find ways to avoid more pregnancies. The letters are grouped by theme into sixteen chapters, and Sanger wrote an introduction to each chapter. With clear relevance to the current post-Roe moment, these pleas to Sanger for advice on avoiding unwanted pregnancy dramatically detail the desperation for reproductive agency when birth control was unknown, withheld, or otherwise inaccessible. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In her foreword for this edition, Margaret Marsh describes the controversies surrounding these letters and places them in their historical context.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Margaret Sanger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 081425036X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814250365\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 446\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.50w x 1.12d","brand":"Margaret Sanger","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44059835072767,"sku":"9780814250365","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_73ca1b9e-317e-4789-9864-b22143b4769a.jpg?v=1685060597","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/motherhood-in-bondage-margaret-sanger-9780814250365","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}