In this Book
- The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger, Volume 4: Round the World for Birth Control, 1920-1966
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: University of Illinois Press
This volume focuses on Sanger from her groundbreaking overseas advocacy during the interwar years through her postwar role in creating the International Planned Parenthood Federation. The documents reconstruct Sanger's dramatic birth control advocacy tours through early 1920s Germany, Japan, and China in the midst of significant government and religious opposition to her ideas. They also trace her tireless efforts to build a global movement through international conferences and tours. Letters, journal entries, writings, and other records reveal Sanger's contentious dealings with other activists, her correspondence with the likes of Albert Einstein and Eleanor Roosevelt, and Sanger's own dramatic evolution from gritty grassroots activist to postwar power broker and diplomat.
A powerful documentary history of a transformative twentieth-century figure, The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger, Volume 4 is a primer for the debates on individual choice, sex education, and planned parenthood that remain all-too-pertinent in our own time.
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- pp. vii-xiv
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xv-xviii
- Introduction
- pp. xix-xxvi
- Editorial Method
- pp. xxvii-xxxii
- Abbreviations
- pp. xxxiii-xl
- Chronology
- pp. xli-xliv
- Chapter 1: Abroad!
- pp. 1-4
- 7. Mar. 8, 1922 / To Anne Kennedy
- pp. 23-26
- 8. Mar. 10, 1922 / Journal Entry
- pp. 26-30
- 10. Mar. 14, 1922 / Journal Entry
- pp. 32-34
- 12. Mar. 17, 1922 / Journal Entry
- pp. 41-44
- 13. Mar. 18, 1922 / Journal Entry
- pp. 44-47
- 14. Mar. 19, 1922 / Journal Entry
- pp. 47-49
- 15. Apr. 7, 1922 / Journal Entry
- pp. 49-51
- 17. Apr. 13, 1922 / Journal Entry
- pp. 51-53
- 20. Apr. 30, 1922 / Journal Entry
- pp. 56-60
- 21. May 1, 1922 / Journal Entry
- pp. 60-63
- 22. Journal Entry
- p. 64
- 29. Aug. 20, 1925 / From H. G. Wells
- pp. 84-85
- 30. Aug. ?, 1925 / To H. G. Wells
- pp. 85-87
- 37. July 4, 1926 / To Edith How-Martyn
- pp. 98-103
- 38. Oct. 23, 1926 / To Edith How-Martyn
- pp. 103-105
- 39. Feb. 4, 1927 / From John Maynard Keynes
- pp. 106-107
- 40. Apr. 8, 1927 / To Juliet Barrett Rublee
- pp. 107-111
- 41. May 22, 1927 / To Hugh de Selincourt
- pp. 111-114
- 42. Aug. 27, 1927 / From Edith How-Martyn
- pp. 114-115
- 43. Oct. 4, 1927 / To Edith How-Martyn
- pp. 115-119
- 45. Nov. 8, 1927 / From Otto Lous Mohr
- pp. 124-126
- 46. Dec. 11, 1927 / To Edith How-Martyn
- pp. 126-130
- 47. Dec. 18, 1927 / To Edith How-Martyn
- pp. 130-133
- 48. Jan. 9, 1928 / From Susanna Green
- pp. 133-136
- Chapter 3: Zurich
- pp. 137-139
- 49. Mar. 30, 1928 / To Agnes Smedley
- pp. 139-142
- 51. Jan. 15, 1929 / To John Maynard Keynes
- pp. 144-145
- 53. Feb. 15, 1929 / To Edith How-Martyn
- pp. 149-152
- 54. Feb. 22, 1929 / From Agnes Smedley
- pp. 152-156
- 56. Apr. 4, 1929 / To Edith How-Martyn
- pp. 158-161
- 57. Sept. 7, 1929 / To Clinton F. Chance
- pp. 161-165
- 59. May 9, 1930 / To Clinton F. Chance
- pp. 172-179
- 60. July 1, 1930 / From Client
- pp. 179-180
- 62. Nov. 17, 1930 / To Juan Monforte
- pp. 183-184
- 63. Mar. 8, 1931 / From Shidzue Ishimoto
- pp. 184-187
- 64. Apr. 7, 1931 / To Shidzue Ishimoto
- pp. 187-188
- 65. Apr. 8, 1931 / To Agnes Smedley
- pp. 188-190
- 66. May 4, 1931 / From Agnes Smedley
- pp. 191-194
- Chapter 4: “The World Needs You”
- pp. 196-198
- 68. Sept. 18, 1931 / To Edith How-Martyn
- pp. 198-199
- 70. Nov. 20, 1931 / From Shidzue Ishimoto
- pp. 204-206
- 71. Jan. 10, 1932 / To Edith How-Martyn
- pp. 206-209
- 72. Feb. 3, 1932 / From Herman Rubinraut
- pp. 209-212
- 74. Mar. 24, 1932 / To Herman Rubinraut
- pp. 214-215
- 76. June 23, 1932 / From Edith How-Martyn
- pp. 217-220
- 77. July 31, 1932 / To Edith How-Martyn
- pp. 221-223
- 79. Oct. 4, 1932 / From Edith How-Martyn
- pp. 227-230
- 80. Oct. 20, 1932 / To Edith How-Martyn
- pp. 230-231
- 81. Dec. 3, 1932 / From Gerda Sebbelov Guy
- pp. 231-233
- 83. Jan. 4, 1933 / To Adolf Meyer
- pp. 234-235
- 85. July 4, 1933 / To Havelock Ellis
- pp. 238-239
- 86. Nov. 14, 1933 / To Herman Rubinraut
- pp. 240-242
- 87. Feb. 14, 1934 / From Edith How-Martyn
- pp. 242-245
- 88. Apr. 12, 1934 / From Shidzue Ishimoto
- pp. 246-248
- 89. July 7, 1934 / To Gerda Sebbelov Guy
- pp. 248-251
- 90. July 12, 1934 / To J. Noah Slee
- pp. 251-253
- 95. Nov. 8, 1934 / From Herman Rubinraut
- pp. 264-267
- 96. Feb. 2, 1935 / To Anna Ngan Chang Chou
- pp. 267-268
- 97. Mar. 8, 1935 / To George Andreytchine
- pp. 268-273
- Chapter 5: “Mother India”
- pp. 274-277
- 98. July 16, 1935 / To Margaret Cousins
- pp. 277-279
- 99. Aug. 13, 1935 / To Marian Paschal
- pp. 279-281
- 100. Nov. 1, 1935 / Journal Entry
- pp. 282-284
- 101. Nov. 14, 1935 / To C. P. Blacker
- pp. 284-287
- 102. Nov. 20, 1935 / Journal Entry
- pp. 287-288
- 105. Nov. 30, 1935 / To Gerda Sebbelov Guy
- pp. 293-297
- 106. Dec. 2, 1935 / Journal Entry
- pp. 297-305
- 107. Dec. 4, 1935 / To Edith How-Martyn
- pp. 305-308
- 108. Dec. 6, 1935 / From Client
- pp. 308-309
- 109. Dec. 9, 1935 / To J. Noah Slee
- pp. 309-312
- 110. Dec. 24, 1935 / From Client
- pp. 312-314
- 111. Dec. 30, 1935 / To Client
- pp. 314-315
- 113. Jan. 10, 1936 / Journal Entry
- pp. 322-325
- 115. Jan. 30, 1936 / To Mohandas K. Gandhi
- pp. 330-332
- 116. Jan. 30, 1936 / To John Henry Guy
- pp. 331-334
- 117. Feb. 2, 1936 / To Havelock Ellis
- pp. 334-336
- 118. Feb. 17, 1936 / Journal Entry
- pp. 336-337
- 119. Mar. 4, 1936 / To Edith How-Martyn
- pp. 337-340
- 120. Aug. 14, 1936 / To José Siurob Ramírez
- pp. 341-343
- 121. Oct. 20, 1936 / To Mohandas K. Gandhi
- pp. 343-344
- 122. Oct. 21, 1936 / To S. W. Lee
- pp. 345-346
- 123. Nov. 6, 1936 / To the BCIIC Council
- pp. 346-347
- Chapter 6: A Troubled World
- pp. 352-354
- 125. Jan. 25, 1937 / To Eleanor A. Hawarden
- pp. 354-358
- 126. Mar. 26, 1937 / To Mei-ling Soong
- pp. 358-360
- 127. May 15–17, 1937 / Journal Entry
- pp. 360-362
- 128. May 18, 1937 / To Katherine Blondel
- pp. 362-364
- 131. July 30, 1937 / To Florence Rose
- pp. 371-375
- 132. Aug. 16–24, 1937 / Journal Entry
- pp. 375-377
- 135. Oct. 29, 1937 / To Anna Ngan Chang Chou
- pp. 384-386
- 136. Oct. 29, 1937 / To Edith How-Martyn
- pp. 386-391
- 137. Jan. 11, 1938 / From Shidzue Ishimoto
- pp. 391-396
- 138. Mar. 18, 1938 / To Frank Wang Co-Tui
- pp. 396-398
- 139. June 3, 1938 / To Margaret A. Pyke
- pp. 398-399
- 140. Oct. 9, 1938 / From Stephen Haweis
- pp. 399-402
- 144. Oct. 25, 1945 / To Douglas A. MacArthur
- pp. 413-415
- 145. Dec. 1, 1945 / To Shidzue Ishimoto Katō
- pp. 415-417
- 147. Aug. 6, 1946 / To Ethel B. Weed
- pp. 419-421
- 148. Aug. 25, 1946 / To Florence Rose
- pp. 421-425
- 151. Mar. 29, 1947 / To Ernst Gräfenberg
- pp. 429-431
- 152. July 26, 1947 / To Florence Rose
- pp. 431-434
- 153. Feb. 1, 1948 / To Mary Reinhardt Lasker
- pp. 434-436
- 154. Aug. 28, 1948 / To Mary Worley Compton
- pp. 437-439
- 155. Feb. 8, 1949 / To Helen Donington Cohen
- pp. 439-443
- 157. Sept. 10, 1949 / To George H. Hendricks
- pp. 445-447
- 158. Oct. 11, 1949 / To Mary Worley Compton
- pp. 447-449
- 161. Feb. 21, 1950 / To Florence Mahoney
- pp. 452-454
- 162. Jan. 23, 1951 / To Clair E. Folsome
- pp. 457-460
- 163. July 10, 1951 / From Client
- pp. 460-461
- 164. Aug. 30, 1951 / To Abraham Stone
- pp. 461-464
- 167. Oct. 25, 1951 / To C. P. Blacker
- pp. 470-472
- 168. Dec. 3, 1951 / To Jawaharlal Nehru
- pp. 473-474
- 170. Mar. 7, 1952 / To Abraham Stone
- pp. 478-480
- 172. June 28, 1952 / From Albert Einstein
- pp. 484-486
- 173. July 8, 1952 / To Eleanor Roosevelt
- pp. 486-487
- 174. July 11, 1952 / To Albert Einstein
- pp. 488-489
- 175. Sept. 4, 1952 / To C. P. Blacker
- pp. 489-493
- 176. Sept. 12, 1952 / To Vera Houghton
- pp. 493-495
- Chapter 9. The Culmination of a Life's Work
- pp. 499-502
- 180. Dec. 8, 1952 / From Helen Keller
- pp. 511-512
- 181. Jan. 8, 1953 / To Gobindram J. Watumull
- pp. 512-514
- 183. May 29, 1953 / To Kageyas W. Amano
- pp. 518-519
- 185. Aug. 18, 1953 / To Lawrence Lader
- pp. 522-523
- 188. Nov. 10, 1953 / To William Vogt
- pp. 526-529
- 189. Nov. 16, 1953 / To Kan Majima
- pp. 529-531
- 190. Jan. 18, 1954 / To C. P. Blacker
- pp. 531-533
- 192. Mar. 5, 1954 / To Lotte A. Fink
- pp. 537-538
- 193. Apr. 9, 1954 / “Japan”
- pp. 538-541
- 195. Apr. 18, 1954 / To Abraham Stone
- pp. 544-545
- 196. June 25, 1954 / To Dhanvanthi Rama Rau
- pp. 546-555
- 198. Feb. 8, 1955 / To Vera Houghton
- pp. 554-557
- 199. Oct. 18, 1955 / To Kuo Mo-Jo
- pp. 557-560
- Chapter 10: The Trials of Being President
- pp. 564-567
- 201. July 10, 1956 / To Hsue-Shen Tsien
- pp. 568-571
- 203. Apr. 10, 1957 / From C. P. Blacker
- pp. 577-581
- 204. July 18, 1957 / To C. P. Blacker
- pp. 582-587
- 206. Aug. 14, 1958 / To Rufus S. Day Jr.
- pp. 590-596
- 207. Jan. 13, 1959 / To C. P. Blacker
- pp. 596-599
- 208. Mar. 21, 1959 / To Amy du Pont
- pp. 599-602
- 209. To Mary Reinhardt Lasker
- pp. 602-604
- 212. Nov. ?, 1955 / Burial Instructions
- pp. 611-612
- Bibliography
- pp. 613-624
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