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Margaret Sanger
Title: Margaret Sanger
Category: Society & Culture / People
Details: Words: 5149 | Pages: 21.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger: Radical Heroine
Margaret Sanger founded a movement in this country that would institute such a change in the course of our biological history that it is still debated today. Described by some as a "radiant rebel", Sanger pioneered the birth control movement in the United States at a time when Victorian hypocrisy and oppression through moral standards were at their highest. Working her way up from a nurse in New York's poor Lower …showed first 75 words of 5149 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 5149 total…later in September of 1966, just 8 days after her 87th birthday (Miller 238-239).
At first glance, Margaret Sanger's career seems much like that of any dedicated heroine of her time; Dorothea Dix, Bessie Hillman, and Carrie Chapman Catt were all women with a cause. Upon closer inspection, though, Margaret stands out as a woman who, not only had a cause to fight for, but also had a movement to found and a life of example to live.
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