Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger
- ISBN-10
- 0300014953
- ISBN-13
- 9780300014952
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1970-01-01
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Author
- David M. Kennedy
Description
Combines a biography of M. Sanger with a social history of the birth control movement.
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