In 1912. In 1921, she founded the Birth Control league, a predecessor to planned parenthood. Next, jean baker reads from her biography. She then is interviewed by an author, christina page, and responds to audience questions at this event from 2011, recorded at the tournament museum in new york city. New yorknt museum in city. [chatter] amanda good evening, everybody. Thank you for your patience. In case you didnt know, we moved into this space last week, so we are playing with some technical difficulties. We are glad youre all here and i hope you all found a drink, and again, i appreciate your patience. Of course, welcome to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. My name is amanda lydon. As curator, i am delighted to see you all here to see jean baker, author of Margaret Sanger a life of passion. She will be in conversation this evening with cristina page. While we often think of Margaret Sangers beginnings in brooklyn with the opening of that Family Planning and Birth Control clinic in
The historical moment in the contradiction that we currently have. In your research it seems that the young man that you talk to have at least the beginnings of an understanding of the changing Politics Around sex and gender. A lot of them go so far to offer pronouns, they talk about feminist concepts such as consent in these changing conditions but they all seen haunted by past ideas and masculinity and sexuality. In one case she wrote that the young man was critical of the classic markers of masculinity but he aspired to them. It feels like theres a ghost of masculinity and sexuality following the young men around them can you talk about that. Yeah, its actually almost as if a layered all the new expectations on thoughts of the old ones without really challenging or looking at or eliminating the old one so that in the real state of conflict. On the one hand, yeah they see women as deserving of their place in the classroom and deserving of their place in the plainfield and deserving o
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Lettie for organizing this event. I want to thank my agent, gail for being here, you have probably already seen one of the 10,500,000 Mike Bloomberg ads, the tagline is mike gets it done, no, gail gets a ton. So, thank you for being here. What an admission also, another great book that you have to re, my friend, Melissa Rogers who is a visiting scholar here we Work Together for 20 years. Her book, religion in public life and faith with the American Public life which has a nice double meaning is a great book to read. And i cannot resist honoring my entire doctor Mark Sheppard who came here today. I honor him because he is an awesome dr. Because he is a great sports fan, kids play sports together but he was actually the dr. To about half of the people in my part of bookings and there is enormous morning in this building that you decided to retire but also so many other friends here come i want to thank you all for coming. But, this is one of the coolest events brookings has ever had. And