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Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America, by Ellen Chesler (Simon & Schuster, 639 pp., $27.50)

DESPERATE for a galvanizing force to rally their troops, feminists have undertaken to revive Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood. All but forgotten since her death in 1966, Mrs. Sanger has enjoyed a renewed celebrity in the last two years. She was honored by Life magazine as one of the hundred most influential people of the twentieth century, and was also inducted into the Arizona Hall of Fame. More recently, her spirit was invoked by NOW President Patricia Ireland, who claimed, in protesting a Supreme Court decision, that she was acting “in the tradition of Margaret Sanger.”

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Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America, by Ellen Chesler (Simon & Schuster, 639 pp., $27.50)

DESPERATE for a galvanizing force to rally their troops, feminists have undertaken to revive Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood. All but forgotten since her death in 1966, Mrs. Sanger has enjoyed a renewed celebrity in the last two years. She was honored by Life magazine as one of the hundred most influential people of the twentieth century, and was also inducted into the Arizona Hall of Fame. More recently, her spirit was invoked by NOW President Patricia Ireland, who claimed, in protesting a Supreme Court decision, that she was acting “in the tradition of Margaret Sanger.”