| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.3

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Canada and the United States

Jimmy Elaine Wilkinson Meyer. Any Friend of the Movement: Networking for Birth Control, 1920–1940. (Women and Health: Cultural and Social Perspectives.) Columbus: Ohio State University Press. 2004. Pp. xxii, 296. Cloth $54.95, CD $9.95.

In 1992, Ellen Chesler published a history of the birth control movement in the twentieth-century United States with the pioneering figure of activist Margaret Sanger standing firmly at the narrative's center. Subsequent historians knocked a few chinks in Sanger's heroic armor, however, stressing her refutation of her own radical roots as well as her strategic decision to forge links with the eugenics movement and population control efforts rather than continuing the struggle for women's reproductive rights. Debates about whether historians should valorize or condemn Sanger ensued, much as her contemporaries had once become polarized around Sanger herself. A welcome corrective from Jimmy Elaine Wilkinson Meyer now moves historians forward in our understanding of the evolution of the birth control movement—away from Sanger's orbit of influence. As the title suggests, this book offers a view from the trenches, carefully reconstructing the intricacies involved in twenty years of organizing and sustaining the Maternal Health Association (MHA) of Cleveland, Ohio.

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