As time goes on, humans adapt their ideologies to the present era, whether or not others agree. “The Right To One’s Body” by Margaret Sanger, discusses about birth control and female choices to copulate. Women can work, vote and enjoy life, however they cannot choose the number of children nor when they want to mate. World War One brought new opportunities to female to work in factories, however as WWI ends and the new era begins. Female started to change from the victorian values, ankle-length skirts and housewife, to the new women, knee-length skirt, alcohol and other entertainment. Consumerism, the idea of buying and defining themself with the brough items, also changed life for married women as they didn't have to waste countless hours
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Sanger was one of the eleventh children of her parents, her father a iconoclasm, he rejected religious beliefs and was a free thinker. She had to witness her mother's early death because of frequent childbirth and poverty (Katz). Once she got married and moved to New York, Sanger was exposed to modern perception of life and she discovered the source for her ideologies. Sanger joined the Women’s Committee of the New York Socialist party and became a active member. With the committee she published many articles for females, however many were banned because they were sought to be obscene. The Comstock Act, stopped the transportation of anything obscene, including articles for intercource for females and anything that stops reproduction. Margaret Sanger writes “The Right to One's Body”, to allow birth control and allow women the right for their reproductive …show more content…
“. No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. NO woman call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.The basic freedom of the world is woman’s freedom”(Sanger, 1). Sanger connects freedom of the world with the freedom of women and her reproductive powers. That the woman who isn’t able to choose her own motherhood cannot not be a free women. It’s true, while females are free from the bonds of the world once married, women are not free form the bonds of your husband, he will be the one choosing when and how many kids his wife will have. Having a job, getting paid, and owning a house is tolerable, however, giving females the power to choose when they will be a mother is not. Sanger says that the women’s mission is to “Her mission is not to enhance the masculine spirit, but to express the feminine; hers is not to preserve a man-made world, but to create a human world by the infusion of the feminine element into all of its activities”(Sanger, 2). It's the female's job to add a feminine touch to this masculine world, to make it hers as much as it is her husbands, but she will not be able to do so with the bonds around her. The bonds that stop her from choosing motherhood and birth control. The problem of birth control is that the female spirit is kept in tight bonds
Sanger was one of the eleventh children of her parents, her father a iconoclasm, he rejected religious beliefs and was a free thinker. She had to witness her mother's early death because of frequent childbirth and poverty (Katz). Once she got married and moved to New York, Sanger was exposed to modern perception of life and she discovered the source for her ideologies. Sanger joined the Women’s Committee of the New York Socialist party and became a active member. With the committee she published many articles for females, however many were banned because they were sought to be obscene. The Comstock Act, stopped the transportation of anything obscene, including articles for intercource for females and anything that stops reproduction. Margaret Sanger writes “The Right to One's Body”, to allow birth control and allow women the right for their reproductive …show more content…
“. No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. NO woman call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.The basic freedom of the world is woman’s freedom”(Sanger, 1). Sanger connects freedom of the world with the freedom of women and her reproductive powers. That the woman who isn’t able to choose her own motherhood cannot not be a free women. It’s true, while females are free from the bonds of the world once married, women are not free form the bonds of your husband, he will be the one choosing when and how many kids his wife will have. Having a job, getting paid, and owning a house is tolerable, however, giving females the power to choose when they will be a mother is not. Sanger says that the women’s mission is to “Her mission is not to enhance the masculine spirit, but to express the feminine; hers is not to preserve a man-made world, but to create a human world by the infusion of the feminine element into all of its activities”(Sanger, 2). It's the female's job to add a feminine touch to this masculine world, to make it hers as much as it is her husbands, but she will not be able to do so with the bonds around her. The bonds that stop her from choosing motherhood and birth control. The problem of birth control is that the female spirit is kept in tight bonds