World Trip Journal 1922

World Trip Journal 1922

written by Margaret Sanger, 1879-1966 (1922, originally published 1922, first release 1922), 180 page(s)

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Abstract / Summary
Sanger’s journal detailing her trip from Honolulu to Japan and then to Korea, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Ceylon, Aden (in Yemen today), Suez, Cairo, Alexandria, Venice, Milan, Switzerland, and Paris. Most of the journal focuses on Asia. Sanger was at least partially funded by a Rockefeller Foundation grant. In Honolulu Sanger discusses how the Japanese, Chinese, and native Hawaiians are respected in Hawaii by white Americans, in contrast to the racism she’s seen in California. Sanger repeatedly discusses her admiration for Japanese people whom she thinks are more polite and friendly than Americans. Sanger has trouble getting into Japan, and is forced to agree not to give any public lectures on Birth Control while there. She gets into squabbles with Japanese police over what topics she can and cannot speak on in public. She lectures at the YMCA building in Tokyo, continues to lecture on birth control morality, strength of the movement, and more throughout her trip. Sanger does many interviews with the press and notes that she is recognized everywhere in Japan. In Japan Sanger meets with the Tokyo Women’s Club and other women’s clubs, the Birth Control League, etc., and notes the problem of overpopulation and lack of space for children to play. Discussion of the Japanese Diet (legislature) which passed a bill allowing women to attend political meetings, but Sanger is concerned that Japanese men do not consider the opinions of women. Travels to Yokohama, Kyoto and to Seoul where she compares Japan’s occupation of Korea to British occupation of Ireland. In Peking and Shanghai, Sanger discusses the Chinese “coolie” system and the changing “marriage system” in China, and she is highly critical of China, in contrast to her descriptions of Japan. Sanger is horrified by foot binding in Hong Kong and prostitution in China and Singapore. Sanger encounters problems with translators in many countries refusing to translate parts of her speeches about birth control to her audience. Much of her trip through the Middle East and Europe seems to have been sightseeing.
Field of Interest
Women and Social Movements
Author
Margaret Sanger, 1879-1966
Collection
Women and Social Movements, International
Content Type
Diary/Memoir/Autobiography
Duration
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Format
Text
Original Publication Date
1922
Original Release Date
1922
Page Count
180
Publication Year
1922
Subject
Women and Social Movements, History, Transnational Women’s Movement, Reproductive Rights, Women and Family, Women and Health, Movimiento de Mujeres Transnacional, Movimento Feminista Transnacional, Derechos Reproductivos, Direitos Reprodutivos, Mujer y Familia, Mulher e Família, Mujer y Salud, Mulher e Saúde, Japón, Japão, Japan, Women and Sexuality, Birth Control, and Health, Birth Control
Topic
Birth Control
Keywords and Translated Subjects
Movimiento de Mujeres Transnacional, Movimento Feminista Transnacional, Derechos Reproductivos, Direitos Reprodutivos, Mujer y Familia, Mulher e Família, Mujer y Salud, Mulher e Saúde, Japón, Japão

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