title: Red Emma. Excerpts from "Living My Life", the autobiography of Emma Goldman.
abstract: The first excerpt (pp. 185-86 of the 1970 Dover edition of Living My Life) dates from 1896, shortly after Emma Goldman returned to New York City from a year abroad during which she studied at Vienna's famous Allgemeines Krankenhaus (General Hospital) and received two diplomas, one for midwifery and one for nursing. She was then 27 years old. The second excerpt (pp. 552-55) describes her women's health lectures some years later, as noted. Despite Goldman's use of the term "birth control" in these excerpts, that term was coined by Margaret Sanger only in 1915. Goldman wrote this autobiography during years 1928 to 1931.
mesh_terms: D005193:Family Planning Services / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D008880:Midwifery / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States