Author Event: Stephanie Gorton, The Icon and the Idealist

In our first event of 2025, we’ll host authors Stephanie Gorton and Carrie Hagen as they discuss Gorton’s book The Icon and The Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry that Brought Birth Control to America.

In this conversation, reading, and Q&A, Gorton and Hagen will time-travel back to the era of these two fascinating women and a country rocked by changing social norms, the Great Depression, and a fervor for eugenics. They'll explore how and why Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett came to activism, the origins of the clash between them, and the ways in which their missteps and breakthroughs have reverberated across American society for generations.

You can order The Icon and the Idealist here. We will have copies for sale at the event, too, where Stephanie will sign. $10 from each copy of The Icon and the Idealist sold at the event will go to the Abortion Liberation Fund of Pennsylvania (AFL-PA). 

More information about this event, the authors, and the book can be found on H&H's website.

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