(2016)
Soft Skull Press,
2016 Series
Published in English
(United States)
- Price
- 19.95 USD
- Pages
- 164
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Soft Skull Press
- Brand
-
Soft Skull Press
- ISBN
-
978-1-59376-640-5
- Barcode
- 9781593766405 51995
- Editing
- Sabrina Jones (design)
- Color
- color cover
- Binding
- paperback
Issue Notes
Design by Sabrina Jones
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Sabrina Jones; Tabitha Lahr (design)
- Inks
- Sabrina Jones
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Characters
- Margaret Sanger
[no title indexed]
credits, title page / 2 pages
- Pencils
- Sabrina Jones
- Inks
- Sabrina Jones
- Letters
- Tabitha Lahr; ?; typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Our Lady of Birth Control
- Characters
- Margaret Sanger (as the Statue of Liberty)
Indexer Notes
Title page, front matter, dedication, acknowledgements
Historic Site
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 2 pages
- Script
- Sabrina Jones
- Pencils
- Sabrina Jones
- Inks
- Sabrina Jones
- Letters
- Sabrina Jones; Tabitha Lahr; typeset
- Characters
- Margaret Sanger; Sabrina Jones
Sex Ed Seventies Style
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Sabrina Jones; friends; Planned Parenthood worker; AIDS (personified as a skeleton)
- Synopsis
- Sabrina Jones and her friends learn about birth control.
- Keywords
- Birth control; contraception; contraceptives; Planned Parenthood; sex education; sexual revolution
Sexual Politics Today
comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; advocacy; medical
- Characters
- Teacher; students; protestors; Margaret Sanger; William Sanger; Anthony Comstock; J. Edgar Hoover; Dr. George Tiller
- Synopsis
- Public attitudes toward sex in America create deep divides. Many people still attack Margaret Sanger for work she did over a century ago.
- Keywords
- Planned Parenthood; politics; protest; sex; sex education
[no title indexed]
illustration / 1 page
- Characters
- Margaret Sanger [Margaret Higgins] (as a cemetery angel)
The Atheist's Angel
comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Michael Higgins; Margaret Higgins [Margaret Sanger]; priest; Robert Ingersoll; Higgins family; people of Corning
- Synopsis
- Espousing atheism, anti-clericalism, and unionism, Michael Higgins loses work and gains enemies among the people of Corning.
- Keywords
- Artist; atheism; atheist; Corning; family; Roman Catholicism; sculptor
Nursing Mother
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Margaret Higgins [Margaret Sanger]; Michael Higgins; Anne Higgins; Higgins children
- Synopsis
- When Margaret's mother dies of tuberculosis, Margaret leaves prep school to care for the younger children. But she clashes with her father... whose freethinking does not extend to his home... leaves Corning, and enters nurse training in White Plains.
- Keywords
- Corning; family; father; mother; New York; nurse; tuberculosis; White Plains
Hijacked Bride
comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Margaret Higgins [Margaret Sanger]; Bill Sanger [William Sanger]; Reverend Norris
- Synopsis
- William Sanger bowls Margaret over, sweeping her into a secret marriage.
- Keywords
- Nurse; wedding; White Plains
Dream House on Fire
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Margaret Sanger; Bill Sanger; Grant Sanger; Stuart Sanger; Peggy Sanger
- Synopsis
- Despite tuberculosis, Margaret and Bill have three children even as she continues working as a nurse. Family life bores her. When they lose their house in a fire, she engineers a move to the "Bohemian" setting of Greenwich Village.
- Keywords
- Family; Greenwich Village; New York; nurse; Saranac Lake; the Bronx; tuberculosis
Goddesses in the Streets
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Sabrina Jones; April Ford; Rosie Jimenez; artists; protestors
- Synopsis
- Sabrina Jones takes part in pro-choice protests.
- Keywords
- Abortion; East Village; New York City; protest
[no title indexed]
illustration / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Whirling Spray Marvel Syringe
Madonna of Bohemia
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Margaret Sanger; Anita Block; Emma Goldman; Alexander Berkman [Sasha Berkman]; Big Bill Haywood; Jessie Ashley; Bill Sanger [William Sanger]; Ethel Higgins [Ethel Byrne]; Anthony Comstock
- Synopsis
- Bill and Margaret join reforming and radical causes. Margaret lectures and publishes on women's health, but Anthony Comstock censors her writing as obscene.
- Keywords
- Birth control; censorship; contraception; freedom of the press; Triangle Fire
[no title indexed]
illustration / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The prevention of conception would work the greatest demoralization.
- Characters
- Anthony Comstock
Sadie Sachs
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Margaret Sanger; doctor; Sadie Sachs; Jake Sachs
- Synopsis
- Sadie Sachs pleads for birth control advice, but Margaret evades the issue. When Sadie dies from a second self-induced abortion, Margaret commits herself to attack the problem at the root.
- Keywords
- Abortion; birth control; New York City; nurse; tenement
[no title indexed]
illustration / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Margaret Sanger was the most ardent propagandist of the joys of the flesh.
- Characters
- Margaret Sanger; suitor
Direct Action
comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Margaret Sanger; Carlo Tresca; Big Bill Haywood; Bill Sanger; strikers; police; artists; Mabel Dodge
- Synopsis
- Margaret joins in the Lowell textile strike and other pro-labor actions, and studies birth control. Disgusted with the free-love atmosphere of the radical circle, Bill insists that they move to Paris where he can study art. But Margaret soon decides to take the children home and start a radical women's paper.
- Keywords
- Birth control; Bread and Roses strike; Cap Cod; contraception; contraceptives; free love; labor union; Lawrence textile strike; nurse; Paris
Rebel Newspaper
comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Margaret Sanger; Bill Sanger [William Sanger]; Michael Higgins; federal agents; judge; newsboy; members of Heterodoxy; Margaret's lover
- Synopsis
- Margaret Sanger begins publishing "The Woman Rebel," promoting radicalism and providing information on birth control. After she is brought to court, she decides to flee the country.
- Keywords
- Birth control; censorship; contraception; contraceptives; feminism; freedom of the press
Fugitive/Seeker
comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Margaret Sanger; Havelock Ellis; Lorenzo Portet; Dr. Drysdale; Mrs. Drysdale; Bill Sanger [William Sanger]; police agent; Anthony Comstock; Judge McInerey
- Synopsis
- In Europe, Margaret Sanger meets fellow radicals, engages in an affair with Lorenzo Portet, and studies birth control methods. Despite Margaret's demand for a divorce, Bill continues to support her cause, willingly going to jail for providing birth control information.
- Keywords
- Birth control; censorship; free love; police
[no title indexed]
illustration / 1 page
- Script
- James J. McInerney (credited as Justice McInerney)
- Pencils
- Sabrina Jones
- Inks
- Sabrina Jones
- Letters
- Sabrina Jones ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This book is not only indecent but immoral.
Facing the Music
comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Margaret Sanger; Peggy Sanger; judges; lawyers; doctors; supporters
- Synopsis
- Margaret returns to America to go to trial, but is devastated when her daughter dies. She refuses to compromise in any way. As her support grows nationwide, the charges are dismissed.
- Keywords
- Birth control
[no title indexed]
illustration / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Family Limitation
- Characters
- Margaret Sanger (as the Statue of Liberty)
Outlaw Clinic
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Margaret Sanger; Ethel Byrne [Ethel Higgins]; Fania Mindell; clinic patients; police spy
- Synopsis
- Margaret and two others open a birth control clinic in Brooklyn. Patients flood in, but police send in a policewoman spy, then arrest the operators and close the clinic.
- Keywords
- Birth control; Brooklyn; contraception; New York City; policewoman
[no title indexed]
illustration / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Diana the Huntress
- Characters
- Diana (Madison Square Garden statue)
Obscenity on Trial
comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Margaret Sanger; Ethel Byrne; Fania Mindell; Jonah J. Goldstein; Justice McInerey; warden; governor; supporters; prisoners
- Synopsis
- Convicted and sent to prison, Ethel goes on a hunger strike. Margaret whips up support, but as Ethel sinks into a coma Margaret pledges to the governor that Ethel will no longer agitate. Ethel recovers, and Margaret serves her own sentence. Public opinion swings in their favor, but the laws remain unchanged.
- Keywords
- Birth control; hunger strike; prison
[no title indexed]
illustration / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Healthcare is a right!
- Characters
- Protestors
Saturday Morning Siege
comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Sabrina Jones; members of WHAM; anti-abortion protestors; staff of World War 3 Illustrated
- Synopsis
- Sabrina Jones joins in several actions to protect clinic clients from aggressive protestors.
- Keywords
- Abortion; cartoonist; protest
[no title indexed]
illustration / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- John the Baptist was an only child.
- Characters
- John the Baptist; Margaret Sanger
Big Leagues
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Margaret Sanger; Theodore Roosevelt; Eugene V. Debs; Big Bill Haywood; Dr. Marie Equi; Billy Williams; Fredrick Blossom; Walter Roberts; Kitty Marion; Juliet Rublee; Havelock Ellis; H. G. Wells; Hugh de Selincourt; police; Bill Sanger; J. Noah Slee
- Synopsis
- Margaret Sanger dedicates herself to propaganda and continues in her dedication to free love. She is divorced from Bill Sanger and marries J. Noah Slee, but only after he signs a contract agreeing to an open marriage.
- Keywords
- Birth control; censorship; divorce; feminism; free love; open marriage; propaganda; women's rights
[no title indexed]
illustration / 1 page
- Script
- Martin Luther King Jr. (credited as The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)
- Pencils
- Sabrina Jones
- Inks
- Sabrina Jones
- Letters
- Sabrina Jones ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- There is a striking kinship between our movements and Margaret Sanger's early efforts.
- Characters
- The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
False Charges
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Margaret Sanger; Marcus Garvey; the Reverend Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.; W.E.B. DuBois; Adolf Hitler; Eleanor Roosevelt; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.; Mary McLeod Bethune
- Synopsis
- Examines and evaluates, and in some cases debunks, various charges made against Sanger.
- Keywords
- Birth control; eugenics; Harlem; racism
Drag It Out
comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Sabrina Jones; Ann; Isabella; Elizabeth; Church Ladies for Choice
- Synopsis
- Sabrina Jones joins pre-choice agitators in their activities.
- Keywords
- Protest
[no title indexed]
illustration / 1 page
- Script
- Church ladies for Choice
- Pencils
- Sabrina Jones
- Inks
- Sabrina Jones
- Letters
- Sabrina Jones ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh beatutiful for pocketbooks
- Characters
- Church Lady for Choice
The Magic Pill
comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Margaret Sanger; Stuart Sanger; Dr. Gregory Pincus; Katherine McCormick
- Synopsis
- Sanger helps enable creation of the birth control pill, and sees the Supreme Court begin striking down laws against birth control, before her death in 1966.
- Keywords
- Birth control; contraception; contraceptives
[no title indexed]
illustration / 1 page
- Script
- The New York Times
- Pencils
- Sabrina Jones
- Inks
- Sabrina Jones
- Letters
- Sabrina Jones ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This dynamic Titian-haired woman whose Irish ancestry also endowed her with unfailing charm and persuasive wit was first and foremost a feminist.
- Characters
- Margaret Sanger
My Hero is a Slut
comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Sabrina Jones; Sandra Fluke; Rush Limbaugh; Margaret Sanger
- Synopsis
- Rush Limbaugh savages women who want birth control covered by insurance.
- Keywords
- Birth control
[no title indexed]
illustration / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You can't get the genie back in the bottle
- Characters
- Free women; Margaret Sanger; Sabrina Jones
Editing
Related Scans
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
[no title indexed]
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2.
["Our Lady of Birth Control"]
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3.
Contents
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4.
Historic Site
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5.
["Women Unite"]
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6.
Sex Ed Seventies Style
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7.
[no title indexed]
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8.
Sexual Politics Today
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9.
[no title indexed]
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10.
The Atheist's Angel
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11.
[no title indexed]
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12.
Nursing Mother
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13.
["Bill & Peg"]
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14.
Hijacked Bride
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15.
[no title indexed]
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16.
Dream House on Fire
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17.
[no title indexed]
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18.
Goddesses in the Streets
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19.
["Whirling Spray Marvel Syringe"]
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20.
Madonna of Bohemia
-
21.
["The prevention of conception would work the greatest demoralization."]
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22.
Sadie Sachs
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23.
["Margaret Sanger was the most ardent propagandist of the joys of the flesh."]
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24.
Direct Action
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25.
[no title indexed]
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26.
Rebel Newspaper
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27.
["Female Remedies"]
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28.
Fugitive/Seeker
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29.
["This book is not only indecent but immoral."]
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30.
Facing the Music
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31.
["Family Limitation"]
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32.
Outlaw Clinic
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33.
["Diana the Huntress"]
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34.
Obscenity on Trial
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35.
["Healthcare is a right!"]
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36.
Saturday Morning Siege
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37.
["John the Baptist was an only child."]
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38.
Big Leagues
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39.
["There is a striking kinship between our movements and Margaret Sanger's early efforts."]
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40.
False Charges
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41.
Nut as Tree Goddess With Sun Disc
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42.
Drag It Out
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43.
["Oh beatutiful for pocketbooks"]
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44.
The Magic Pill
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45.
["This dynamic Titian-haired woman whose Irish ancestry also endowed her with unfailing charm and persuasive wit was first and foremost a feminist."]
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46.
My Hero is a Slut
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47.
["You can't get the genie back in the bottle"]
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48.
Bibliography
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49.
"Sabrina Jones is a comic book artist, writer and editor who began her career with activist art collective Carnival Knowledge and alternative comics World War 3 Illustrated and Girltalk."
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50.
[no title indexed]
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51.
["Nurse. Radical. Mother. Lover. Lightning Rod."]
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