The bestselling author of The Road from Coorain presents an extraordinarily powerful anthology of the autobiographical writings of 25 women, literary predecessors and contemporaries that include Jane Addams, Zora Neale Hurst, Harriet Jacobs, Ellen Glasgow
A pioneer in the battle to establish birth control as a basic human right and a founder of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, Sanger, a nurse who witnessed first-hand the devastating effects of unwanted pregancy, triumphed over arrest, indic