Woman of Valor; Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. 639, [1] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. Author inscription on fep reads: "To Jim Frederman- A man of valor carrying on a grand fight! With Thanks+Best wishes-Ellen Chesler 9-25-92". A biography of the woman who fought for birth control in America describes her childhood, her private life, her relationships with Emma Goldman and John Reed, and her public role. Ellen Chesler is a distinguished lecturer and director of the Eleanor Roosevelt Initiative on Women and Public Life at Roosevelt House, the public policy center of Hunter College of the City University of New York. Ellen Chesler is a senior fellow at The Open Society Institute. From 1997 through 2004, she directed the foundation’s $35 million program in reproductive health and rights and now advises on a range of other grant making and policy development concerns. She is the author of the highly-regarded Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America, for which she was awarded PEN’s 1993 Martha Albrand citation for the year’s best first work of non-fiction, and she is co-editor of Where Human Rights Begin: Health, Sexuality and Women in the New Millennium. From 1997 to 2003, she chaired the board of the International Women’s Health Coalition. She now chairs the Advisory Committee of the Women’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch, and also serves on the board of the Planned Parenthood Foundation. An honors graduate of Vassar College, Chesler earned her master’s and doctoral degrees in history at Columbia University. More