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Woman and the New Race
by Margaret Sanger
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| Are overburdened mothers justified in their appeals for contraceptives or abortions?... Will anyone... dare to say to these women that they should go on bringing helpless children in to the world to share their misery?... To say to these women that they should continue their helpless breeding of the helpless is stupid brutality. -from "Avoiding Childbirth" An iconic figure in the fight for reproductive rights for women in America, Margaret Sanger was a powerful voice in the early years of the 20th century. This 1920 book is Sanger's cry for the legalization of birth control and the education of women about their own bodies. With a fiery passion, she discusses: . women's struggle for freedom . the wickedness of creating large families . contraceptives or abortion? . legislating woman's morals . and more. An important record of the beginnings of the feminism in the modern era, Sanger's words remain vital and necessary at a time when women's control over their bodies continues to be challenged. |
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- Publisher: Cosimo Classics
- ISBN-10: 1-59605-519-7
- ISBN-13: 978-1-59605-519-3
- Amazon.com Sales Rank #5330929
- Published on: December 01, 2005
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 252 pages
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Kurt A. Johnson: One of the founding documents of modern feminism  |
Margaret Sanger (1883-1966) is remembered on the political Left for her tireless championing of women's access to birth control, and her founding of the American Birth Control League, which in 1946 was renamed Planned Parenthood. Critics on the Right also remember Margaret Sanger, but for her espousal of the cause of eugenics, accusing her of being a racist and a proto-Nazi. When this book fell into my hands, I decided to see what Ms. Sanger had to say for myself.
This particular book was published in 1920, some two years before her best-selling The Pivot of Civilization. In it, the author argues for the most basic of liberation for women, the liberty to choose when and if to have children. Ms. Sanger argues that it is the uncontrolled production of too many children that resulted in society's problems, including war, exploitation of workers and poverty. And, as such, if the size of families can be brought to a lower level, both the women themselves and society at large will reap great benefits. (This summary is probably too short of a summary of this book, and boils its concepts down to the barest.)
Now, what is the race that the title implies? In fact, in this book Ms. Sanger is talking about a future "American race," which more modern people would probably call the "American people." In chapter three, she discusses immigration and the racial/national makeup of America in the 1920s, and she does not make any judgments on any group. Indeed, she is at pains to point out that the same problems appear amongst native-born American as appear amongst the immigrants - including illiteracy, disease, and "feeblemindedness." So, at least from this book, I don't see any evidence to support a charge of racism.
What I did find surprising is that Ms. Sanger presented herself as an enemy of abortion. Throughout the book, she calls abortion a "horror," "abhorrent," and "abnormal." In chapter ten she states, "I assert that the hundreds of thousands of abortions performed in America each year are a disgrace to civilization." And, in the final chapter she foresees a new age, when "There will be no killing of babies in the womb by abortion..."
But, that aside, with Ms. Sanger's demand for, "the natural right of woman to the control of her own body," it is easy to see that this is one of the founding documents of modern feminism. Rush Limbaugh refers to abortion as "a kind of sacrament" to the modern feminists, and through this book, you can see why the right to absolute control of reproduction is so important to modern feminists, and where the desire for that right sprang from. I highly recommend this to anyone who wishes to understand modern American feminism. |
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K. Burns: oh margie  |
| Margaret Sanger was either a dreamer or a determined social elitist. This is the second book I've read that she's authored. I am currently reading a third, Pivot of Civilization. This particular book opens with her stating that through birth control- "the world is thus remade, it will exceed the dream of statesman, reformer and revolutionist." She is definitely a woman who sees the glass as half empty and that women are the ones to blame. Page 4- "woman was also unknowingly creating slums, filling asylums with insane, and institutions with other defectives. She was replenishing the ranks of the prostitutes, furnishing grist for the criminal courts and inmates for prisons." To refer to humans in general as "grist" and "defectives" is appalling- and to overlook the good in humanity- those who helped the insane or cured the "defectives", those who invented, donated, found employment as police officers, judges, or prison guards were overlooked. She is completely misguided and naive of the "population problem" she proclaims. It is not about quantity, but quality. Families today average 2 children- yet we still have all of the horrors- if not in excess of the 1920s. We live in a time where mothers and fathers feel it necessary to both work full-time jobs- something that wasn't common place in her generation, yet, we have smaller families. She has a dangerous vision of who should and should not be worthy to live or reproduce- pointing out tuberculosis carriers- when she herself had tuberculosis for the majority of her adult life. Once again, a mindset of "do as I say, not as I do." The book closes with "child slavery, prostitution, oppression and war will disappear from the earth" once her theories have been put to practice. She is either a hopeless dreamer who doesn't understand human nature--- or a brilliant elitist who was setting the foundation for future "defectives" to be deemed unworthy to live. Myself, having an unplanned conception, wonder if I would be considered a "fit human being" in Mrs. Sanger's eyes. |
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Dalton C. Rocha: Margaret Sanger was a mad or a bigot  |
I tried to read this book, here in Brazil.This book is 100% free, for reading, on a internet site.If you think that Margaret Sanger was a woman's right pioneer, reading this book you will soo realize that Mrs. Sanger was really a mad or a bigot.Without a single drop of doubt , M. Sanger was a 100% neurotic and racist person.
Living in a time, when more than 20,000,000 people were exterminated by eugenicists/communists in then Soviet Union, this book never tells that communism is bad.Writen in a time when Adolf Hitler was a politician in Germany, this book never tells nothing about nazism.Yes, I didn't finish this book.When this book became claiming that World War I, was did because of presence of "unwanted babies", I decided not to continuous to read this trash-book.
The "lessons" of this book are basically these:
1-Only people of white race, good health and with money, really are "true" human beings.All the rest aren't nothing more than mouses or lices.
2-The biggest menace to wold, are colored race and his growing numbers.
3-All problems in the world came, from big families or colored people.
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Only three kind of people really can read this book:
1-Mads.
2-Bigots and racists.
3-Someone looking for to see how bigoted and racist, was american plutocracy in USA, about 80 years ago. |
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| Kurt A. Johnson: One of the founding documents of modern feminism |
Margaret Sanger (1883-1966) is remembered on the political Left for her tireless championing of women's access to birth control, and her founding of the American Birth Control League, which in 1946 was renamed Planned Parenthood. Critics on the Right also remember Margaret Sanger, but for her espousal of the cause of eugenics, accusing her of being a racist and a proto-Nazi. When this book fell into my hands, I decided to see what Ms. Sanger had to say for myself.
This particular book was published in 1920, some two years before her best-selling The Pivot of Civilization. In it, the author argues for the most basic of liberation for women, the liberty to choose when and if to have children. Ms. Sanger argues that it is the uncontrolled production of too many children that resulted in society's problems, including war, exploitation of workers and poverty. And, as such, if the size of families can be brought to a lower level, both the women themselves and society at large will reap great benefits. (This summary is probably too short of a summary of this book, and boils its concepts down to the barest.)
Now, what is the race that the title implies? In fact, in this book Ms. Sanger is talking about a future "American race," which more modern people would probably call the "American people." In chapter three, she discusses immigration and the racial/national makeup of America in the 1920s, and she does not make any judgments on any group. Indeed, she is at pains to point out that the same problems appear amongst native-born American as appear amongst the immigrants - including illiteracy, disease, and "feeblemindedness." So, at least from this book, I don't see any evidence to support a charge of racism.
What I did find surprising is that Ms. Sanger presented herself as an enemy of abortion. Throughout the book, she calls abortion a "horror," "abhorrent," and "abnormal." In chapter ten she states, "I assert that the hundreds of thousands of abortions performed in America each year are a disgrace to civilization." And, in the final chapter she foresees a new age, when "There will be no killing of babies in the womb by abortion..."
But, that aside, with Ms. Sanger's demand for, "the natural right of woman to the control of her own body," it is easy to see that this is one of the founding documents of modern feminism. Rush Limbaugh refers to abortion as "a kind of sacrament" to the modern feminists, and through this book, you can see why the right to absolute control of reproduction is so important to modern feminists, and where the desire for that right sprang from. I highly recommend this to anyone who wishes to understand modern American feminism.
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