Woman rebel

the Margaret Sanger story

72 pages

English language

Published Jan. 6, 2013

ISBN:
978-1-77046-126-0
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OCLC Number:
841710267

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3 stars (1 review)

Portrays the life of Margaret Sanger, a birth control activist and advocate for female reproductive rights, in graphic novel format. Includes an 18 page section at the back ("Who's who and what's what" with photographs of those concerned).

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3 stars

A pretty complicated and controversial topic, figure and art style, I have been pretty spoiled lately by some pretty stellar historic graphic novels, so this one really only felt like a mixed bag to me.

While I totally get why she has been maligned so much over the years, I do feel like it would have been nice to see more showing me how untrue these allegations are rather than just telling me a couple of times near the end. I also felt like some of the depictions of other races was a bit less than respectful, which certainly didn't lend me to trusting Bagge so absolutely as they seemed to require.

The art style felt like it really reflected Sanger's attitude pretty well. She was certainly a force of nature to be reckoned with and not afraid of being disliked. I certainly hope this did not detract from my …

Subjects

  • Family Planning Policy
  • Women social reformers
  • Contraception
  • Nurses
  • Comic books, strips
  • Women's rights
  • Birth control
  • Biography
  • History

Places

  • United States