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Margaret Sanger
1879–1966
A nurse turned activist, she helped force public debate about birth control in the United States and pushed for women to have more control over their own bodies and family lives.
10 Audiobooks
The Pivot of Civilization
by Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger: an autobiography.
by Margaret Sanger
What Every Girl Should Know
by Margaret Sanger
Woman and the New Race
by Margaret Sanger
The Case for Birth Control: A Supplementary Brief and Statement of Facts
by Margaret Sanger
Family Limitation
by Margaret Sanger
Debate on birth control. Margaret Sanger and Winter Russell
by Margaret Sanger, Winter Russell
Dutch Methods of Birth Control
by Margaret Sanger
Magnetation Methods of Birth Control
by Margaret Sanger
About the author
Born in 1879, she became one of the most influential and controversial figures in the early birth control movement in the United States. Trained as a nurse, she was shaped by seeing poor women endure repeated pregnancies and dangerous self-induced abortions, experiences that fueled her campaign to spread information about contraception.
In 1916, she opened a birth control clinic in Brooklyn, an act that led to her arrest and helped challenge restrictions on contraceptive information and access. She also published and organized widely, and her efforts contributed to the development of the organization that later became Planned Parenthood.
Her legacy remains deeply debated. She is widely recognized for expanding access to contraception, while historians and readers also examine her ties to the eugenics ideas that circulated in her era.