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Visual Dissent: A Graphic Biography of a Woman Rebel

Who is Margaret Sanger you may wonder. Though not a household name Sanger is as pivotal a figure in the women's rights movement as there is.  She is the mother of the birth control movement in the United States and in fact it was Sanger who coined the term birth control.  It is Sanger who opened the first birth control clinic - think Planned Parenthood - and it is Sanger who worked tirelessly for the poor, teaching women about their options and their rights. Now thanks to the Harvey-award winning author of the alternative-comic series Hate, Peter Bagge, we get an...

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