Pivot of Civilization
by Margaret Sanger
About this book
Margaret Sanger's most important and well known work, Sanger argues through her background in medicine the relation between disease and suffering caused by unwanted pregnancies and urges for women's rights and medical rights over personal control of contraceptive remedies. Additionally, the work is controversial with its eugenic overtones and discussion of overpopulation, particularly how the two relate in controlling populations deemed "unfit".
Chapters (24)
1Introduction, by H.G. Wells
2Chapter I: A New Truth Emerges
3Chapter I: Continued
4Chapter II: Conscripted Motherhood
5Chapter II: Continued
6Chapter III: "Children Troop Down From Heaven...."
7Chapter III: Continued
8Chapter IV: The Fertility of the Feeble-Minded
9Chapter IV: Continued
10Chapter V: The Cruelty of Charity
11Chapter V: Continued
12Chapter VI: Neglected Factors of the World Problem
13Chapter VI: Continued
14Chapter VII: Is Revolution the Remedy?
15Chapter VII: Continued
16Chapter VIII: Dangers of Cradle Competition
17Chapter VIII: Continued
18Chapter IX: A Moral Necessity
19Chapter IX: Continued
20Chapter X: Science the Ally
21Chapter X: Continued
22Chapter XI: Education and Expression
23Chapter XII: Woman and the Future
24Appendix I: Principles and Aims of the American Birth Control League
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