Ellen Chesler

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About The Author

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. Woman of Valor was a finalist for PEN’s 1993 Martha Albrand Prize for the year’s best first work of nonfiction.

Books by Ellen Chesler

Woman of Valor

Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America

By Ellen Chesler
This illuminating biography of Margaret Sanger—the woman who fought for birth control in America—describes her childhood, her private life, her relationships with Emma Goldman and John Reed, her public role, and more.
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