- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: McFarland & Company (January 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0786420111
- ISBN-13: 978-0786420117
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 16.7 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 476 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #877,080 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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As the introduction indicated, many historians of Sanger and the birth-control movement assume that Sanger embraced eugenics only pragmatically on behalf of her feminism, and thus that her feminism neutralizes her eugenics. Read the first page
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As the introduction indicated, many historians of Sanger and the birth-control movement assume that Sanger embraced eugenics only pragmatically on behalf of her feminism, and thus that her feminism neutralizes her eugenics. Read the first page
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Exposing the Agenda of Planned Parenthood's Founder, April 17 2005
By R. K. OBANNON - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Margaret Sanger's Eugenic Legacy: The Control of Female Fertility (Paperback)
TIME magazine called Margaret Sanger one of the 100 most important people of the 20th century, saying that "her crusade to legalize birth control spurred the movement for women's liberation." While many remember her advocacy for birth control, few remember or give due consideration to the eugenic philosophy that drove Sanger and her allies in the birth control, and later population control or "family planning" movements. This book corrects that significant historical deficit.In this book, Franks shows that any concern Sanger had for women's rights was secondary to her larger agenda -- helping to create a better race by controlling the fertility of those she saw as society's least "fit" members -- the poor, the disabled, the "feebleminded," the sickly, the epileptic, the alcoholic, etc. Where persuasion worked, that was fine, but as Franks points out, Sanger and her allies were prepared to use coercion when they felt it was necessary to achieve their eugenic aims.
Franks traces what she identifies as the "control movement" from its earliest days in the 1920s when sterilization programs began to spring up in Virginia, Alabama, North Carolina, and later California to the 1990s when U.N. "family planning" money helped support forced sterilizations and abortions in China. Along the way, she identifies the key players, policies, and programs that helped to mainstream many of the ideas that the world once found so abhorrent in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s.
There are those in our modern PC culture that might be tempted to dismiss such charges, but this book is thorough and well documented, with over 1,200 footnotes and a bibliography featuring about a thousand books, articles, and interviews on Sanger, her associates, and the organizations they founded and led.
The tone is academic, but the language is generally accessible, so that both scholars and activists alike will benefit from the reading of it.
Despite Sanger's celebration as a liberator of women and the feminist hagiographies that have been written of Planned Parenthood's founder, Franks argues that Sanger's eugenic ideas are antithetical to freedom and to true feminism, aiming to suppress precisely what it is that makes women women.
Sanger certainly had enormous influence, but before deciding whether that influence was good or bad, one would be well advised to read this book.
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Feminists: Read this book!, Aug 10 2006
By Jennifer Morse "jennyromo" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Margaret Sanger's Eugenic Legacy: The Control of Female Fertility (Paperback)
This book exposes the fear that is at the heart of the modern reproductive rights movement: fear of female reproductive power. We need a women's movement that allows us to be ourselves, instead of a women's movement that demands that we chemically castrate ourselves. Angela Franks points the way to a new women's movement that is based on what is truly distinctive about women. We need to celebrate motherhood, not fear it. Angela Franks shows that Margaret Sanger and her movement were strongly eugenic, and feared too much reproduction by people they considered unfit. The women's movement has never recovered.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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Historical, not political, Mar 21 2010
By S. Santiago "S. Santiago" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Margaret Sanger's Eugenic Legacy: The Control of Female Fertility (Paperback)
I thought it was a factually written work of history. Having my degree in historical studies, I thought that she did a wonderful job delving into the facts, and citing the appropriate references for her arguments. I would encourage readers to read this book, and not to shy away from a work for fear of what facts it might bring forth. It is most definitely a historical, not political work.
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