Terrible Virtue
- Author: Ellen Feldman
- Narrator: Kate Udall
- Publisher: HarperCollins USA
- Duration: 7:43:15
Synopsis
In the spirit of The Paris Wife and Loving Frank, the provocative and compelling story of one of the most fascinating and influential figures of the twentieth century: Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood—an indomitable woman who, more than any other, and at great personal cost, shaped the sexual landscape we inhabit today.
The daughter of a hard-drinking, smooth-tongued free thinker and a mother worn down by thirteen children, Margaret Sanger vowed her life would be different. Trained as a nurse, she fought for social justice beside labor organizers, anarchists, socialists, and other progressives, eventually channeling her energy to one singular cause: legalizing contraception. It was a battle that would pit her against puritanical, patriarchal lawmakers, send her to prison again and again, force her to flee to England, and ultimately change the lives of women across the country and around the world.
This complex enigmatic revolutionary was at once vain and charismatic, generous and ruthless, sexually impulsive and coolly calculating—a competitive, self-centered woman who championed all women, a conflicted mother who suffered the worst tragedy a parent can experience. From opening the first illegal birth control clinic in America in 1916 through the founding of Planned Parenthood to the arrival of the Pill in the 1960s, Margaret Sanger sacrificed two husbands, three children, and scores of lovers in her fight for sexual equality and freedom.
With cameos by such legendary figures as Emma Goldman, John Reed, Big Bill Haywood, H. G. Wells, and the love of Margaret’s life, Havelock Ellis, this richly imagined portrait of a larger-than-life woman is at once sympathetic to her suffering and unsparing of her faults. Deeply insightful, Terrible Virtue is Margaret Sanger’s story as she herself might have told it.
Chapters
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001 Terrible Virtue
Duration: 31s -
002 Prologue
Duration: 04min -
003 Chapter 01
Duration: 28min -
004 Chapter 02
Duration: 15min -
005 Chapter 03
Duration: 25min -
006 Chapter 04
Duration: 10min -
007 Chapter 05
Duration: 17min -
008 Chapter 06
Duration: 29min -
009 Chapter 07
Duration: 12min -
010 Chapter 08
Duration: 13min -
011 Chapter 09
Duration: 23min -
012 Chapter 10
Duration: 26min -
013 Chapter 11
Duration: 15min -
014 Chapter 12
Duration: 21min -
015 Chapter 13
Duration: 04min -
016 Chapter 14
Duration: 13min -
017 Chapter 15
Duration: 20min -
018 Chapter 16
Duration: 06min -
019 Chapter 17
Duration: 16min -
020 Chapter 18
Duration: 24min