She is embarrassed by "female issues" and avoids a meeting with
Margaret Sanger; she obtains modern birth control but is relieved when her fiance refuses to discuss it.
My approach will be to look at the novel in relation to historical changes in motherhood, then to mark parallels between Ryder and texts of the early birth-control movement-specifically, two of
Margaret Sanger's 1920s works that opposed what she called "enforced maternity." But before examining this historical context, I would like to set out some of the passages in Ryder that provide the underpinning for my argument, to suggest patterns in the novel's representation of mothering.
Margaret Sanger was arrested on obscenity charges in connection with her book Family Limitation, a pioneer work on birth control.
Planned Parenthood, the brainchild of eugenicist
Margaret Sanger, celebrated its 100th birthday October 16.
However, the organization proudly traces its roots back to 1916 when its founder,
Margaret Sanger, opened the nation's first birth-control clinic in Brooklyn, New York.
Most recently, she took to her Facebook page to call us "freak show knuckleheads" because we quoted Planned Parenthood founder
Margaret Sanger with 100 percent accuracy as saying, "The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."
The women's suffrage movement advanced, and
Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in America, shortly thereafter founding the organization that would eventually become known as Planned Parenthood.
Readers are introduced to important figures like feminists
Margaret Sanger and Katherine McCormick, scientist Gregory Pincus and Catholic doctor John Rock who battled his own church to advocate for the drug.
She dedicated her life to caring for him and to her causes: housing for women at MIT, the early women's rights movement and later, through
Margaret Sanger, the birth control movement.
Birth-control crusader
Margaret Sanger and philanthropist Katherine McCormick provided the passion and the purse strings, turning to scientist Gregory Pincus and obstetrician-gynecologist John Rock to conjure up the first hormonal contraceptive.
After bouncing from university job to university job and playing a botched role in a murder case that kept the lie detector he invented (but failed to patent) on the far outskirts of American courts, he settled down in an extralegal plural marriage that included birth control pioneer
Margaret Sanger's niece.
Margaret Sanger - United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood; she challenged Gregory Pincus to develop a birth control pill (1883-1966)