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出版社周刊评论
Former Columbia University Faculty Fellow Chesler succeeds admirably in bringing the extraordinary career and controversial personality of Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) to life in this skillfully researched and objective biography. Sanger, a political radical, devoted herself to ensuring women's access to contraception after observing the plight of the poor as a public health nurse. An astute organizer, she fought against the opposition of a conservative political and religious male establishment, building a national and international birth control movement. Chesler explores the negative as well as the positive aspects of Sanger's character, noting that she was known to manipulate people and sometimes modified her views to achieve her ends. A strong believer in her own right to a fulfilled sex life, Sanger married twice and took many lovers, including Havelock Ellis and H. G. Wells. This is an outstanding biography of a feminist reformer whose achievements changed the lives of women forever. Photos not seen by PW. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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A splendid biography of the woman who fought for more than half a century to bring birth control to America. Planned Parenthood clinics are once again in the thick of political turmoil over a woman's right to choose abortion. It would probably all seem dishearteningly familiar to Planned Parenthood's founder, Margaret Higgins Sanger, who devoted her life to securing for women the legal right to prevent pregnancy by choosing contraception. In this lively volume, scholar Chesler (formerly of Barnard and CUNY) gives us a portrait of a complex personality who took on a strait-laced society in which the public mention of sex, even in marriage, was against the law. Sanger, born in 1879, battled not only to save the lives of the millions of women who died from illegal abortions and streams of uncontrolled pregnancies, but to give women the freedom to enjoy their own sexuality. She certainly enjoyed hers. No thin-lipped crusader, Sanger was attractive, witty, and bright, with two husbands and a parade of lovers that included Havelock Ellis and H.G. Wells. Her politics and rhetoric were honed in turn-of-the-century leftist movements--Emma Goldman, John Reed, and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn were early allies--but she quickly narrowed her focus, urging that when women gained control of their bodies and hence their lives, social and economic change would follow. She made mistakes and she made enemies, the Roman Catholic Church not the least of them, but her tenacity saw the obscenity laws fall, the Pill introduced, and family planning become an international movement. A riveting warts-and-all portrait of a courageous and determined woman who, in a time of foment, wrought fundamental changes in the human social condition. (Photos--not seen.)
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Chesler spent two decades on this excellent biography of the often controversial and ever-irreverent pioneer of birth control. Her meticulously documented research and thorough synthesis of Sanger's lively, conflictful personality and life have resulted in not only a sharply focused individual portrait, but also an invaluable chronicle of the moral, medical, and political aspects of the birth-control movement. Sanger's belief in the fundamental right of women to control their bodies inspired a lifetime of work and risk taking. Ambitious and feisty, Sanger, from a family of 11 children, was also an adventurous and sensual woman unable and unwilling to sustain monogamous relationships or consistent domestic arrangements. As nurse, midwife, wife, and mother of three, Sanger identified strongly with the poor women in her care and turned radical, hell-bent on making sexual education and contraceptives available to all women in spite of the illegality of such actions. She opened the first American birth-control clinic in 1916, wrote ground-breaking materials about female sexuality and birth control, fought to make reproduction counseling part of regular health care, and traveled around the world lecturing and organizing for the cause. She also abandoned her first husband, married a millionaire she didn't love but who supported her work, and continued to conduct a number of intense affairs, including relationships with her mentor, Havelock Ellis, and H. G. Wells. The fact that the debates at the heart of Sanger's lifework continue to rage today makes this a salient contribution to the history of women's rights and the annals of the fight for reproductive freedom. ~--Donna Seaman
《图书馆杂志》(Library Journal )书评
The contemporary social debate over women's reproductive rights provides a timely backdrop for this major new biography of Margaret Sanger and her struggle for birth control. Sanger spent 50 years organizing a movement and advocating for birth control rights that are taken for granted in today's Western world. Chesler believes that Sanger's impact on women's lives has not been adequately appreciated or documented. This biography succeeds admirably in filling the gap with a new look at Sanger's private and public life. Interwoven in this account are discussions of the sweeping social and political developments of the 20th century. Chesler presents a Margaret who rejected the conventional restrictive female role and, while living a hidden and unconventional private life, worked publicly to push society into accepting new rights for women. This work is carefully documented and, while not as breezy a read as some biographies, is a major contribution to women's history. Recommended for academic and public libraries.-- Judy Solberg, Univ. of Maryland Libs., College Park (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.