[Hac-announce] March 2026 HAC Book Discussion: "The Icon & the Idealist" by Stephanie Gorton

[kvngough at aol.com]

Our book for March (Women's History Month) is The Icon & the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America by Stephanie Gorton. The discussion will take place on Saturday, March 21 at 2:30 pm at the Wilson Branch of the New Haven Free Public Library, located at 303 Washington Ave., New Haven.

>From Amazon:[A]s the birth control movement was born, two leaders emerged: Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett. While Sanger would go on to found Planned Parenthood, Dennett’s name has largely faded from public knowledge. Each held a radically different vision for what reproductive autonomy and birth control access should look like in America…The Icon & the Idealist reveals how and why these two women came to activism, the origins of the clash between them, and the ways in which their missteps and breakthroughs have reverberated across American society for generations.
“The Icon & the Idealist is an essential, and accessible, look at the U.S.'s fraught history of reproductive freedoms through the lives of two leaders as complex and nuanced as the topic itself.” – Rachel Somerstein, author of Invisible Labor
Hope to see you on the 21st,Kevin (& Paula)
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