Arguably her most important and influential book, this controversial work, first published in 1922 by pioneering birth-control advocate Margaret Sanger, attempted to broaden the still-radical idea of birth control beyond its socialist and feminist roots. Moving away from a single-minded focus on women's reproductive rights to the larger issue of the general health and economic prosperity of the whole human race, Sanger argued that birth control was pivotal to a rational approach toward dealing with the threat of overpopulation and its ruinous consequences in poverty and disease. Through this book, Sanger hoped to persuade the medical establishment to assume control over contraceptive distribution, and thereby to lessen the religious, legal, and moral opposition that continued to restrict access to contraceptive information. She also introduced to Americans the link between science and sex, which hitherto had been found mainly in the work of European sexologists.
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This review is from: The Pivot of Civilization (Classics in Women's Studies) (Paperback)
It sounds to me as if the editors think these ideas were not only safely sane, but a winning "solution". What makes these ideas any different from what was coming out of Germany at the same time other than the fact that it was written by a wannabe pedestaled white lady?
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Quotes from this book can go a long way:She unabashedly called for the extirpation of "weeds .... overrunning the human garden"; for the segregation of "morons, misfits, and the maladjusted"; and for the sterilization of "genetically inferior races." Later she singled out the Chinese, writing in her autobiography about "the incessant fertility of [the Chinese] millions spread like a plague." This book helps you to understand the person behind the person, drawing one to ponder questions like, "Is eliminating an inferior race an exercise of the right to choice?" and "Can one get a salesman to pay the price of gold for rocks?" In concluding that I was one of those births that should have been prevented, I wondered if it was acceptable to reverse the focus, practicing the freedom to choose through elimination one's incubation processors.
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The REAL Margaret Sanger,
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This review is from: The Pivot of Civilization (Classics in Women's Studies) (Paperback)
This book is a worthy read because it shows the REAL Margaret Sanger. She was a white supremacist and a Nazi sympathizer. She is also hailed as a femenist hero at almost any University in the country! She founded "The American Birth Control League" which changed its name after WWII to "Planned Parenthood" (I wonder why?). Oddly enough, Planned Parenthood's website has a little biography about her, calling her a hero. There's even a section titled, "Reaching out to the African-American Community." What? Read this book (HER OWN WORDS) and learn the truth about this "hero."
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BIRTH CONTROL, Mrs. Sanger claims, and claims rightly, to be a question of fundamental importance at the present time. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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BIRTH CONTROL, Mrs. Sanger claims, and claims rightly, to be a question of fundamental importance at the present time. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
reckless breeding Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- The Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger on 7 pages
- Woman Rebel by Margaret Sanger in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Woman and the New Race by Margaret Sanger in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- The Sermon on the Mount by Georg Strecker on page 197, and page 199
- What Every Girl Should Know by Margaret H. Sanger in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
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- Crossing the Threshold of Love: A New Vision of Marriage by Mary Shivanandan on 7 pages
- Birth Control, Politics in the United States, 1916-1945 by Carole R. McCann on 4 pages
- Salvation Is from the Jews by Roy H. Schoeman on page 189, page 191, and Back Matter
- The Moral Veto: Framing Contraception, Abortion, and Cultural Pluralism in the United States by Gene Burns on page 98, page 100, and Back Matter
- Twentieth-Century Sexuality: A History (Family, Sexuality and Social Relations in Past Times) by Angus McLaren on page 49, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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