Margaret Sanger
For my dinner plate, I decided to re-create a place setting for American activist Margaret Sanger. Margaret Sanger is credited to being one the most powerful driving forces in the birth control and reproductive rights movement in the United States. Sanger’s mission was to empower women to make their own reproductive choices and to educate women about their bodies, rights, and sex. She advocated sex education, birth control and female contraception available to all. She started a sex education column, “What Every Girl Should Know,” writing for the New York newspaper. In 1914 she issued a short-lived magazine, The Woman Rebel, and distributed a pamphlet, Family Limitation, advocating her views. In the center of my dinner plate is a paper mache red rose. The flower of a red rose illustrates love, passion, beauty and can often represent female genitalia. I felt that this flower was symbolic to Margaret Sanger and represented her mission and fight toward women’s reproductive rights. What is most significant about the flower is the writings and paper used to construct the flower itself. The rose was created and made from the text of Margaret’s columns, “What Every Girl Should Know.” I wanted to use her writing to create the rose because a big part of her mission was to educate
women, to promote sex education. This center piece almost acts as an educational pamphlet, in the form of a red rose which represents the female body. On the sides of my placemat that is under the dinner plate are quotes from Margaret Sanger. Some of Sanger’s words were controversial yet held a significant purpose. Margaret Sanger’s struggle did not only help women gain rights but also increased the well-being of many individuals, families, and their communities. Her advocacy and devotion to reproductive healthcare helped found Planned
Parenthood Federation of America. Her impact on contemporary society is tremendous, by enabling women to control their fertility and giving them access to contraception. Birth control gave women the right to take care of themselves and their bodies. Another significance about birth control is that it gave the right to plan out parenthood. Sanger used her writing experience to broadcast contraception information to the public. All these publications enabled her to reach the public and advocate for the rights of women.
women, to promote sex education. This center piece almost acts as an educational pamphlet, in the form of a red rose which represents the female body. On the sides of my placemat that is under the dinner plate are quotes from Margaret Sanger. Some of Sanger’s words were controversial yet held a significant purpose. Margaret Sanger’s struggle did not only help women gain rights but also increased the well-being of many individuals, families, and their communities. Her advocacy and devotion to reproductive healthcare helped found Planned
Parenthood Federation of America. Her impact on contemporary society is tremendous, by enabling women to control their fertility and giving them access to contraception. Birth control gave women the right to take care of themselves and their bodies. Another significance about birth control is that it gave the right to plan out parenthood. Sanger used her writing experience to broadcast contraception information to the public. All these publications enabled her to reach the public and advocate for the rights of women.