ISBN: 9781495951657

Paperback, [PU: Createspace], The Pivot of Civilization - By Margaret Sanger an American birth control activist. Margaret Higgins Sanger (September 14, 1879 - September 6, 1966) was an Am… Mehr…

Paperback, [PU: Createspace], The Pivot of Civilization - By Margaret Sanger an American birth control activist. Margaret Higgins Sanger (September 14, 1879 - September 6, 1966) was an American birth control activist, sex educator, and nurse. 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. Sanger's efforts contributed to several judicial cases that helped legalize contraception in the United States. Sanger is a frequent target of criticism by opponents of birth control and has also been criticized for supporting eugenics, but remains an iconic figure in the American reproductive rights movement. In 1916, Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, which led to her arrest for distributing information on contraception. Her subsequent trial and appeal generated enormous support for her cause. Sanger felt that in order for women to have a more equal footing in society and to lead healthier lives, they needed to be able to determine when to bear children. She also wanted to prevent unsafe abortions, so-called back-alley abortions, which were common at the time because abortions were usually illegal. To Alice Drysdale Vickery Whose prophetic vision of liberated womanhood has been an inspiration - "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, Classics<

ISBN: 9781495951657

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-rad… Mehr…

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. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Social Sciences>Sociology>Sociology, CreateSpace Publishing Core >1<

2014, ISBN: 9781495951657

Taal: Engels; Afmetingen: 8x254x178 mm; Gewicht: 259,00 gram; Verschijningsdatum: februari 2014; ISBN10: 1495951650; ISBN13: 9781495951657; , Engelstalig | Paperback | 2014, Sociale wete… Mehr…

Taal: Engels; Afmetingen: 8x254x178 mm; Gewicht: 259,00 gram; Verschijningsdatum: februari 2014; ISBN10: 1495951650; ISBN13: 9781495951657; , Engelstalig | Paperback | 2014, Sociale wetenschappen, Sociologie, Createspace<

ISBN: 9781495951657

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