The pivot of civilization
Publisher: Indypublish; IndyPublish
Published: 2008
Place of publication: United States]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781437812947
Subjects: Birth control
Description: "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." - Amazon 

Includes and introduction by H.G. Wells.

Includes primary source documents.
Notes: "Principles and aims of the American Birth Control League": p. [277]-284.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / H. G. Wells - 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 - Women and the future - Appendix: Principles and aims of the American Birth Control League.