Book cover for The Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger and H. G. Wells

The Pivot of Civilization

2016 Released
204 Pages
3-4 Hours
Audiobook Unavailable
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H. G. Wells LibraryISBN 9781473345430

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.

Margaret Sanger

Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) was the founder and president of the American Birth Control League, which later became Planned Parenthood. She organized the first World Population Conference in Geneva in 1927. Even into her 80s, Sanger traveled the world helping establish birth control clinics.

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