Book reviews -- Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America by Ellen Chesler

Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America. By Ellen Chesler. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. 639 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-671-60088-5.)

While we still do not know as much as we should, and will, about the lives of women in the past, considerable work is now available about Margaret Sanger and the birth control movement. Do we need yet another study? The answer is yes. With the appearance of Ellen Chesler's Woman of Valor, we have a far richer and fuller recounting than we have had before of both Margaret Singer's life and the birth control movement. This book, though certainly not uncritical of its subject, is an enduring tribute to the significance of Margaret Sanger in the history of women. Sanger dedicated herself to the belief that women's liberation and therefore human progress...