Our Lady of Birth Control: A Cartoonist's Encounter with Margaret Sanger
- Annotation:
- Jones's autobiographical strips follow her journey into activist art in response to the anti-feminist backlash of the Reagan era, and intersperse Jone's biography of the life of Margaret Sanger and her fight to legalize and make available birth control.
- Creator:
- Author - Sabrina Jones
- Publication Information:
- Soft Skull Press, Berkeley, CA, 2016
- Color or Black & White:
- Genres:
- Autobiography/Memoir
- Biography
- Non-Fiction
- Bibliography Available:
- Yes
- Original Language:
- English
- Historical Topic/Event:
- World War (1939-1945)
- World War (1914-1918)
- Geographic Setting:
- United States of America
- Date Range:
- 1879 - 2012
- Tags:
- Margaret Sanger, birth control, contraceptives, Birth Control Federation of America, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, obscenity (law), feminism
- Notes:
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