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Ellen Chesler

Ellen Chesler
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Ellen Chesler

ELLEN CHESLER is distinguished lecturer and director of the Eleanor Roosevelt Initiative on Women and Public Life at Roosevelt House, the new public policy center of Hunter College of the City University of New York. Woman of Valor was a finalist for PEN's 1993 Martha Albrand prize for the year's best first work of nonfiction.

Woman of Valor will be released on October 16, 2007 in Trade Paperback
Oct 16, 2007
Woman of Valor is now available in Trade Paperback
Oct 16, 2007
Woman of Valor will be released on October 16, 2007 in eBook
Oct 16, 2007
Woman of Valor is now available in eBook
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Denver Post, December 11, 2011
...mothers (and she eventually landed in jail plenty). It's questionable whether Baker's biography adds much to Ellen Chesler's 1992 "Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America," but nearly 200 pages shorter, it is concise and...
Denver Post, December 11, 2011
...mothers (and she eventually landed in jail plenty). It's questionable whether Baker's biography adds much to Ellen Chesler's 1992 "Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America," but nearly 200 pages shorter, it is concise and...
Poughkeepsie Journal, September 12, 2011
...Franklin D. Roosevelt biographer; Allida Black, executive editor, fdr4freedoms Digital Initiative and Board of Governors, Roosevelt Institute; and Ellen Chesler, senior fellow, Roosevelt Institute and former director, Eleanor Roosevelt Initiative on...
NHPR, February 22, 2012
...While� Rick Santorum and the Catholic Church are continuing to fuel backlash over the Obama administration’s compromise to allow insurance companies to cover birth control for employees of faith-based organizations,� indicates that Americans –...
RHRealityCheck, February 15, 2012
...God, so they can’t and won’t compromise. I know. I’ve tried to deal with them.” Ellen Chesler is a Senior Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and author of Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America...
Huffington Post, February 14, 2012
...Republicans for Choice last week issued a call for nominations for the 2012 Barry Goldwater award, an annual prize awarded to a Republican legislator who has acted to protect women's health and rights. Past recipients include Maine Senator Olympia Snowe,...