The Pivot of Civilization

by Margaret Sanger, H. G. Wells

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781473345430
Publisher:	Read Books Ltd.
Publication date:	09/14/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	204
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Margaret Sanger is the founder of planned parenthood- the leading abortion chain in America. Margaret Higgins Sanger was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse

Table of Contents

Foreword, Peter C. Engelman

Introduction, by H. G. Wells

1. A New Truth Emerges

2. Conscripted Motherhood

3. Children Troop Down From Heaven

4. The Fertility of the Feeble-Minded

5. The Cruelty of Charity

6. Neglected Factors of the World Problem

7. Is Revolution the Remedy?

8. Dangers of Cradle Competition

9. A Moral Necessity

10. Science the Ally

11. Eductaion and Expression

12. Woman and the Future

Appendix: Principles and Aims of the American Birth Control League