{"id":1355,"date":"2012-09-02T01:45:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T01:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/125books\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2012-09-02T01:45:01","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T01:45:01","slug":"year-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/2012\/09\/02\/year-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>1914: <strong>Family Limitation<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h4>Author\/Editor: Margaret Sanger<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/31790\" target=\"_blank\">Find it online!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/09\/Family-Limitation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1356\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;margin-right: 5px\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/09\/Family-Limitation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"285\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Margaret Sanger\u2019s <em>Family Limitation<\/em> is a brief pamphlet that does just what it says on the packet\u2014explain how to limit family size through birth control.\u00a0 Controversial from its first writing, when opponents were troubled by the uncoupling of sex from reproduction (and perhaps by the discussion of sexuality at all) to the present, when Sanger\u2019s views of eugenics and race trouble modern readers, Sanger\u2019s work has had an undeniable impact on the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century. Besides reproductive health, Sanger\u2019s other concern was free speech.<\/p>\n<p><em>Family Limitation,<\/em> then, is a particularly apt representation of that work as the brief, practical manual triggered 3 obscenity charges and a charge of \u201cinciting murder and assassination\u201d. Eventually the charges were dropped, but this was a first encounter with the courts. Sanger went on to face and foment several court cases, finally leading to one that rejected the Comstock law in 1936 and made it possible for doctors to supply birth control.<\/p>\n<p>For any woman who has been able to control her own fertility, and any person who has benefited from that possibility for women, this is essential reading to see how the conversation around birth control has changed in the last century\u2014and to see how some technologies remain essentially identical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1914: Family Limitation Author\/Editor: Margaret Sanger Find it online! Margaret Sanger\u2019s Family Limitation is a brief pamphlet that does just what it says on the packet\u2014explain how to limit family size through birth control.\u00a0 Controversial from its first writing, when opponents were troubled by the uncoupling of sex from reproduction (and perhaps by the discussion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1908-1917"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}