When Margaret Sanger returned to Europe in 1920, World War I had altered the social landscape as dramatically as it had the map of Europe. Population concerns, sexuality, venereal disease, and contraceptive use had entered public discussion, and Sanger's birth control message found receptive audiences around the world. 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...

Originally published in 1916, Margaret Sanger's "What Every Girl Should Know" provides information to adolescent girls on such topics as puberty, menstruation, venereal disease, pregnancy and menopause.

This is Margaret Higgins Sanger's 1922 work, "The Pivot of Civilization." Margaret Higgins Sanger (1879 - 1966) was an American sex educator, activist, nurse, and writer. She is responsible for popularising the term "birth control," as well as opening the first birth control clinic in America. She also established the organization that would one day become the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Contents include: "A New Truth Emerges," "Conscripted Motherhood," "'Children Troop Down From Heaven....'," "The Fertility of the Feeble-Minded," "The Cruelty of Charity," "Neglected Factors of...