Read Banned Books: Family Limitation

Grainy photograph of cover, with picture of the author in partial shadow in the center of thepage. Above the picture is the text 'FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION. [Copyrighted / FAMILY LIMITATION / By / NURSE MARGARET H. SANGER'. Below the picture is the text 'Review Publishing Co., Printers, 104 Fifth Avenue, New York City, U.S.A.'
Cover of 1914 edition. (Source: Harvard Library)
Title:Family Limitation
Author:Margaret Sanger
First published:1914

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This booklet described and advocated various methods of contraception. Originally published in 1914, it was reissued in several editions thereafter (though all are now thoroughly out of date from the standpoint of medical knowledge). Distribution was initially difficult due to the Comstock Law of 1873, which prohibited 'any article whatever for the prevention of conception... or... notice of any kind stating when, where, how, or of whom, or by what means [such an article] can be purchased or obtained.'

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