Publisher's Synopsis
Margaret Sanger, best known as the pioneer of birth control, was revolutionary in more ways than one. In Sabrina Jones's graphic novel, the author illustrates the incredible life of Margaret Sanger (1879-1966), framing the biography with her personal experiences of coming of age at the height of the sexual revolution. During her lifetime, Sanger transformed herself from working class nurse to an exuberant free-lover and savvy manipulator of the media, the law, and her wealthy supporters. Through direct action, propaganda, exile, and imprisonment, she ultimately succeeded in bringing legal access to birth control to women of all classes. Sanger's revolutionary actions established organisations that eventually evolved into Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Jones's autobiographical sections show her journey into activist art in response to the anti-feminist backlash of the Reagan era.
