The volume is edited by Esther Katz, Cathy Moran Hajo, Peter C. Engelman, and Amy Flanders, and will be released March 1-the start of Women’s History Month. Katz, Moran Hajo, and Engelman also edited Volume 1 of the Sanger papers, which were published in 2002. Katz is editor and director of the Margaret Sanger Papers Project and a professor of history at New York University.
Margaret Sanger’s efforts to legalize contraception expanded across the United States in the late 1920s and throughout the 1930s when she testified before Congress, sought a judicial test case, and confronted the Catholic Church. These years are chronicled in The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger: Volume 2: Birth Control Comes of Age, 1928-1939 (University of Illinois), which will be released March 1-the start of Women’s History Month.
The volume is edited by Esther Katz, Cathy Moran Hajo, Peter C. Engelman, and Amy Flanders. Katz, Moran Hajo, and Engelman also edited Volume 1 of the Sanger papers, which were published in 2002. Katz is editor and director of the Margaret Sanger Papers Project and a professor of history at New York University.
Reporters interested in speaking with Katz should contact James Devitt, NYU’s Office of Public Affairs, at 212.998.6808 or james.devitt@nyu.edu.
As with Volume 1, the documents assembled for Volume 2-more than 85 percent of them letters-were culled from the Margaret Sanger Papers Microfilm Edition. Volume 2 also documents Sanger’s complicated personal life, her unstable marriage, loss of wealth, and love affairs in middle age. Volume 3 will address later periods in Sanger’s life, and Volume 4 will cover her international work in the birth control struggle.
Engelman is an associate editor of the Margaret Sanger Papers Project, a freelance writer, and an archivist. Moran Hajo, an associate editor and the assistant director of the Margaret Sanger Papers Project, received her Ph.D in history from New York University. Flanders received her doctorate from Oxford University. Her work was funded by a fellowship in historical editing provided by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.