Pivot Of Civilization

Author : Margaret Sanger
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781538150375

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The Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger Pdf

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. However important this book is to the history of women's rights, it remains a very problematic work from our more scientifically informed perspective today. In arguing for population control Sanger made frequent reference to the then fashionable "science" of eugenics. She also adopted its rhetoric, using such callous phrases as "the feeble-minded" and the "unfit" and advocating birth control as a means of limiting the breeding of "defectives, delinquents and dependents." Although she incorporated views and terminology commonly held in respectable medical and scientific circles of the day, Sanger's writings on eugenics, and this book in particular, have become fodder for her critics both on the left and the right, who seek to diminish her achievements and obscure what is ultimately a powerful feminist message: when women gain greater control over their fertility, they will improve the human race. This unusual and historically significant book is complemented by a thoughtful and informative introduction by Peter C. Engelman, assistant editor of The Margaret Sanger Papers Project, who provides much insight by placing this work in the context of the age and Sanger's life.

Author : Margaret Sanger
Publisher : Inkling Books
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1587420082

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The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective by Margaret Sanger Pdf

Today's heated debates over social issues such as abortion, birth control, ethnicity, immigration, race, religion, sexual behavior, and welfare did not begin in the 1960s. They began in the last years of the nineteenth century and reached their zenith in the 1920s, when this book sold over 200,000 copies. Here is all the text of Margaret Sanger's 1922 best-seller along with 31 chapters by her contemporaries to set what she advocated in historical perspective. This is not history told after the fire and passion have died out. These are words spoken in the heat of battle, at a time when Sanger and others believed that the fate of civilization depended on their ideas winning acceptance here and around the world.

Author : Margaret Sanger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798655159297

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The Pivot of Civilization (Graphyco Editions) by Margaret Sanger Pdf

"Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts." Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) was an American birth control activist, writer anda nurse born in Corning, New York, U.S. Sanger popularized the term "birth control", opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

Author : Margaret Sanger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1546848681

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The Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger Pdf

Birth Control, Mrs. Sanger claims, and claims rightly, to be a question of fundamental importance at the present time. I do not know how far one is justified in calling it the pivot or the corner-stone of a progressive civilization. These terms involve a criticism of metaphors that may take us far away from the question in hand. Birth Control is no new thing in human experience, and it has been practised in societies of the most various types and fortunes. But there can be little doubt that at the present time it is a test issue between two widely different interpretations of the word civilization, and of what is good in life and conduct. The way in which men and women range themselves in this controversy is more simply and directly indicative of their general intellectual quality than any other single indication. I do not wish to imply by this that the people who oppose are more or less intellectual than the people who advocate Birth Control, but only that they have fundamentally contrasted general ideas,-that, mentally, they are DIFFERENT. Very simple, very complex, very dull and very brilliant persons may be found in either camp, but all those in either camp have certain attitudes in common which they share with one another, and do not share with those in the other camp.

Author : Margaret Sanger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1936830043

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The Pivot of Civilization and a Plan for Peace by Margaret Sanger Pdf

The Pivot of Civilization was published in 1922. It contains Margaret Sanger's belief that civilization rises or falls on how it views the 'people problem.' It wasn't simply the fact that there were too many people. The kind of people roaming the planet were also a problem. What kind of people? Sanger says it explicitly: feeble-minded, defective, moronic, epileptic people. What should be done with them? They should be put into camps. They should be sterilized. They should be segregated. Does this sound familiar?It is but one small step to add: "They should be exterminated."10 years later, Sanger introduced her 'Plan for Peace' (included in this book) which made similar calls. So it was that some of the most devilish ideas carried out by the Nazis not more than a decade later were just as popular in America. Indeed, it appears the Nazis may have gotten their ideas from American eugenicists!Sanger's book will give you a new perspective on the intellectual climate in the early 1900s and a new understanding of contemporary events and issues.

Author : Margaret Sanger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0243700717

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Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger Pdf

Author : Ahmet Davutoğlu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000458527

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Pivot Cities in the Rise and Fall of Civilizations by Ahmet Davutoğlu Pdf

Based on the author’s long experience in academic life and the public realm, especially in foreign policy, this book argues that a single categoric classification of cities is inadequate, and that cities have had different and varied impacts and positions throughout the history of civilization. The author examines how the formation, transformation, destruction or reestablishment of many civilizational cities reveals a clearer picture of the cornerstones of the course of human history. These cities, which play a decisive and pivotal role in the direction of the flow of history as well as providing us with a compass to guide our efforts to understand and interpret this flow, are conceptualized by the author as civilizations’ "pivot cities". This innovative book explores the role of great cities in political historical change, presenting an alternative view of these pivot cities from a culturalist perspective. Within this framework, the role played by pivot cities in the history of civilization may be considered under seven distinct headings: pioneering cities which founded civilizations; cities which were founded by civilizations; cities which were transplanted during the formation of civilizations; "ghost cities" which lost their importance through shifts in political power and civilizational transformation; "lost cities" which were destroyed by civilizations; cities on lines of geocultural/geoeconomic interaction; and cities which combine, transform or are transformed by different civilizations. The author’s concept of pivot cities explores the interplay between vital cities and civilizations, which bears on the future of globalization at a time of instability, as projected continuing de-Westernization becomes a theme in studies of global history. This book provides highly productive discussions relevant to the literature on city-civilization relationships and the historicity of pivot cities. Its clear language, rich content, deep and original perspective, interdisciplinary approach and rich bibliography will ensure that it appeals to students and scholars in a variety of disciplines, including cultural studies, political science, comparative urban studies, anthropology, history and civilizational studies.

Author : Margaret Sanger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0371155231

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The Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger Pdf

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Author : Margaret Sanger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 133098479X

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The Pivot of Civilization (Classic Reprint) by Margaret Sanger Pdf

Excerpt from The Pivot of Civilization "I dream of a world in which the spirits of women are flames stronger than fire, a world in which modesty has become courage and yet remains modesty, a world in which women are as unlike men as ever they were in the world I sought to destroy, a world in which women shine with a loveliness of self-revelation as enchanting as ever the old legends told, and yet a world which would immeasurably transcend the old world in the self-sacrificing passion of human service. I have dreamed of that world ever since I began to dream at all." - Havelock Ellis About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Margaret Sanger
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781596055193

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Woman and the New Race by Margaret Sanger Pdf

Are overburdened mothers justified in their appeals for contraceptives or abortions?... Will anyone... dare to say to these women that they should go on bringing helpless children in to the world to share their misery?... To say to these women that they should continue their helpless breeding of the helpless is stupid brutality. -from "Avoiding Childbirth" An iconic figure in the fight for reproductive rights for women in America, Margaret Sanger was a powerful voice in the early years of the 20th century. This 1920 book is Sanger's cry for the legalization of birth control and the education of women about their own bodies. With a fiery passion, she discusses: .women's struggle for freedom .the wickedness of creating large families .contraceptives or abortion? .legislating woman's morals .and more. An important record of the beginnings of the feminism in the modern era, Sanger's words remain vital and necessary at a time when women's control over their bodies continues to be challenged. American activist MARGARET HIGGINS SANGER (1879-1966) was an early advocate of birth control; she served as president of the International Planned Parenthood Federation from 1952 to 1959. She also wrote Happiness in Marriage (1926) and her autobiography (1938).

Author : Margaret 1879-1966 Sanger,Carrie Chapman 1859-1947 Catt, Former,National American Woman Suffrage Associa
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1371914931

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PIVOT OF CIVILIZATION by Margaret 1879-1966 Sanger,Carrie Chapman 1859-1947 Catt, Former,National American Woman Suffrage Associa Pdf

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Author : Margaret Sanger,H. G. Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1473333431

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The Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger,H. G. Wells Pdf

This is Margaret Higgins Sanger's 1922 work, "The Pivot of Civilization." Margaret Higgins Sanger (1879 - 1966) was an American sex educator, activist, nurse, and writer. She is responsible for popularising the term "birth control," as well as opening the first birth control clinic in America. She also established the organization that would one day become the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Contents include: "A New Truth Emerges," "Conscripted Motherhood," "'Children Troop Down From Heaven....'," "The Fertility of the Feeble-Minded," "The Cruelty of Charity," "Neglected Factors of the World Problem," "Is Revolution the Remedy?," "Dangers of Cradle Competition," "A Moral Necessity," "Science the Ally," "Education and Expression," et cetera. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

Author : Angela Franks
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786454044

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Margaret Sanger's Eugenic Legacy by Angela Franks Pdf

Margaret Sanger, the American birth-control and population-control advocate who founded Planned Parenthood, stands like a giant among her contemporaries. With her dominating yet winning personality, she helped generate shifts of opinion on issues that were not even publicly discussed prior to her activism, while her leadership was arguably the single most important factor in achieving social and legislative victories that set the parameters for today's political discussion of family-planning funding, population-control aid, and even sex education. This work addresses Sanger's ideas concerning birth control, eugenics, population control, and sterilization against the backdrop of the larger eugenic context.

Author : Barbara Schneider
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780817320959

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Corporal Rhetoric by Barbara Schneider Pdf

"Examines public discourse from the Progressive Era over the state's right to regulate women's bodies and their reproduction"--

Author : Peter C. Engelman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9798216098164

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A History of the Birth Control Movement in America by Peter C. Engelman Pdf

This narrative history of one of the most far-reaching social movements in the 20th century shows how it defied the law and made the use of contraception an acceptable social practice—and a necessary component of modern healthcare. A History of the Birth Control Movement in America tells the extraordinary story of a group of reformers dedicated to making contraception legal, accessible, and acceptable. The engrossing tale details how Margaret Sanger's campaign beginning in 1914 to challenge anti-obscenity laws criminalizing the distribution of contraceptive information grew into one of the most far-reaching social reform movements in American history. The book opens with a discussion of the history of birth control methods and the criminalization of contraception and abortion in the 19th century. Its core, however, is an exciting narrative of the campaign in the 20th century, vividly recalling the arrests and indictments, banned publications, imprisonments, confiscations, clinic raids, mass meetings, and courtroom dramas that publicized the cause across the nation. Attention is paid to the movement's thorny alliances with medicine and eugenics and especially to its success in precipitating a profound shift in sexual attitudes that turned the use of contraception into an acceptable social and medical practice. Finally, the birth control movement is linked to court-won privacy protections and the present-day movement for reproductive rights.