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What Every Girl Should Know

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What Every Girl Should Know (1916)
by Margaret Sanger

Originally published as a column from 1912–1913; published in book form in 1916.

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What Every Girl

Should Know


BY

Margaret H. Sanger


AUTHOR OF


“How Six Little Children Were Taught the Truth.”

SENTINEL PRINTING CO.

PRINTERS AND



PUBLISHERS

READING, PENNA.

Dedication


TO THE WORKING GIRLS

OF THE WORLD

THIS LITTLE BOOK

IS

LOVINGLY DEDICATED

Contents


CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION.
CHAPTER II. GIRLHOOD.
Part I. Physical Growth.
Part II. Mental Development.
CHAPTER III. PUBERTY.
Part I. General Organs, Uterus, Ovaries, Etc.
Part II. Menstruation and Its Disorders.
CHAPTER IV. SEXUAL IMPULSE.
Part I. Masturbation.
Part II. Sexual Impulse in Animals—In Men. Its Significance in Love.
CHAPTER V. Reproduction.
Part I. Growth of the Life Cell in the Uterus.
Part II. Hygiene of Pregnancy—Miscarriage.
CHAPTER VI. SOME OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF IGNORANCE AND SILENCE.
Part I. Continence in Young Men.
Part II. Gonorrhoea.
Part III. Syphilis.
CHAPTER VII. MENOPAUSE.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1931.


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