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| Included in the Nursing History Collection are materials that document the movement for women’s reproductive rights. Margaret Sanger, a nurse in the New York slums in the early 1910's, gave up practicing active nursing to fight the miseries of multiple, uncontrolled childbirths and the subsequent health and poverty problems. Her most important contribution was the attempt to get information about birth control directly to the women who needed it. |
Margaret Sanger, 1879-1966 The first edition of Family Limitation was published illicitly per Sanger’s instructions as she fled to England to escape prosecution for daring to discuss contraceptives and woman’s rights to it. |
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W. H. Slingerland. |
Slingerland was a Special Agent in the Department of Child-Helping, Russell Sage Foundation. These two state studies offer detailed profiles of institutions and organizations for orphans, "colored" children, day nurseries, disabled children, settlement houses, etc. |
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| Margaret Sanger, 1879-1966. Woman and the New Race With a preface by Havelock Ellis New York: Truth Publishing Co., [1920] Call Number: (SPL) HQ 766 S35 1920b Special Collections, Golda Meir Library |
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Margaret Sanger, 1879-1966. Selections from the letters sent to Mrs. Sanger by mothers in the United States and Canada. |
Margaret Sanger, 1879-1966. Signed presentation copy to librarian and collector Milton J. Ferguson, of Margaret Sanger’s autobiography with publisher’s announcement laid in |
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Margaret Sanger, 1879-1966 Margaret Sanger; An Autobiography 1st Edition New York: W.W. Norton [c1938] Call Number: (SPL) HQ 764 .S3 1938 Special Collections, Golda Meir Library This first edition of Margaret Sanger’s autobiography was donated with Birth Control Question and Answers and a form letter from Margaret Sanger’s Motherhood Advice Bureau laid in the book. These pieces of ephemera offer examples that link the concepts espoused by Sanger in her book, to actions taken to continue to make those concepts a reality in society. |
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