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I thought the Sanger article was very interesting. I like how Sanger is able to use the story of Mrs. Sachs to show the rising need and importance for birth control. I think it presents birth control as more of a social issue, rather than just an issue of liberating woman's sexuality. She demonstrates that birth control is a necessity because of all the hurt, poverty and death that is occurring due to a lack of birth control. At this time, one had to have enough money for doctors who they could pay to tell them about birth control options/abortion due to the Comstock Laws, and I think this is important for why Sanger decides to advocate birth control, especially to the poorer classes. -abratchi | I thought the Sanger article was very interesting. I like how Sanger is able to use the story of Mrs. Sachs to show the rising need and importance for birth control. I think it presents birth control as more of a social issue, rather than just an issue of liberating woman's sexuality. She demonstrates that birth control is a necessity because of all the hurt, poverty and death that is occurring due to a lack of birth control. At this time, one had to have enough money for doctors who they could pay to tell them about birth control options/abortion due to the Comstock Laws, and I think this is important for why Sanger decides to advocate birth control, especially to the poorer classes. -abratchi | ||
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| + | I think the novelty of birth control and it's practices were particularly interesting during this time period. It was a process which was becoming more widely popularized because it was directly connected to women's growing independence from men. I agree with the fact that birth control began to empower women because it allowed them to choose weather or not they wanted to get pregnant, whereas previously they were almost forced into sex. I think Sanger was wise in attempting to make birth control a more medical issue , but I also think it has feminist elements because it was able to empower women to make more significant sexual decisions.-Afrisk | ||
'''Emma Goldman – A Radical view of women’s emancipation – 1911''' | '''Emma Goldman – A Radical view of women’s emancipation – 1911''' | ||
