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- Title
"To Create a Race of Thoroughbreds": Margaret Sanger and The Birth Control Review.
- Authors
Murphy, John M.
- Abstract
This article deals with the Birth Control Review, the primary paper of the birth control movement in the United States introduced by Margaret Sanger in February 1917. The justification for birth control in the U.S. changed dramatically around 1920. Rather than continuing to present birth control as a route toward radical social change, Sanger argued that birth control was a means for maintaining a conservative social structure against the poor and the unfit. The change in the ideology of the birth control movement has a number of implications for the study of the rhetoric of birth control in the U.S. and for the examination of social movements in general. It is important to understand the origins of the birth control movement in feminism and socialism. Only with that knowledge can the importance of the transformation of the movement's ideology and the resulting loss of the working class base be explained fully. Feminism and socialism provided the framework that allowed for the growth of the birth control movement. Without that foundation, the movement no longer appealed to the majority of its constituents.
- Subjects
UNITED States; BIRTH control; SANGER, Margaret, 1879-1966; SOCIAL movements; SOCIAL psychology; POLITICAL participation; FEMINISM
- Publication
Women's Studies in Communication, 1990, Vol 13, Issue 1, p23
- ISSN
0749-1409
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/07491409.1990.11089739