Viii. Birth Control A Parents' Problem Or Woman's : CHAPTER VIII BIRTH CONTROL--A PARENTS' PROBLEM OR WOMAN'S? THE problem of birth control has arisen directly from the effort of the feminine spirit to free itself from bondage. Woman herself has wrought that bondage through her reproductive powers and while enslaving herself has enslaved the world...
Xi. Are Preventive Means Certain : CHAPTER XI ARE PREVENTIVE MEANS CERTAIN? THERE are several means of preventing conception which are both certain and harmless. What those means are the state laws forbid me to say. If I should defy the state laws and name those contraceptives, the federal laws would forbid this book's going through...
Title Page : WOMAN AND THE NEW RACE BY MARGARET SANGER WITH A PREFACE BY HAVELOCK ELLIS TRUTH PUBLISHING COMPANY NEW YORK {scanned , August 2001. Typographical Errors In Original Have Been Retained, And Marked '"sic"' (Latin, "thus").} {p. iv} Copyright, 1920, by BRENTANO'S All Rights Reserved Made...
Xv. Legislating Woman's Morals : CHAPTER XV LEGISLATING WOMAN'S MORALS ONE of the important duties before those women who are demanding birth control as a means to a New Race is the changing of our so-called obscenity laws. This will be no easy undertaking; it is usually much easier to enact statutes than to revise them. Laws are...
Xiii. Battalions Of Unwanted Babies The Cause : CHAPTER XIII BATTALIONS OF UNWANTED BABIES THE CAUSE OF WAR IN every nation of militaristic tendencies we find the reactionaries demanding a higher and still higher birth rate. Their plea is, first, that great armies are needed to "defend" the country from its possible enemies; second, that a huge...
Iii. The Material Of The New Race : CHAPTER III THE MATERIALS OF THE NEW RACE EACH of us has an ideal of what the American of the future should be. We have been told times without number that out of the mixture of stocks, the intermingling of ideas and aspirations, there is to come a race greater than any which has contributed...
Xii. Will Birth Control Help The Cause Of Labor : CHAPTER XII WILL BIRTH CONTROL HELP THE CAUSE OF LABOR? LABOR seems instinctively to have recognized the fact that its servitude springs from numbers. Seldom, however, has it applied its knowledge logically and thoroughly. The basic principle of craft unionism is limitation of the number of workers...
I. Woman's Error And Her Debt : WOMAN AND THE NEW RACE CHAPTER I WOMAN'S ERROR AND HER DEBT THE most far-reaching social development of modern times is the revolt of woman against sex servitude. The most important force in the remaking of the world is a free motherhood. Beside this force, the elaborate international programmes...
Ii. Woman's Struggle For Freedom : CHAPTER II WOMAN'S STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM BEHIND all customs of whatever nature; behind all social unrest, behind all movements, behind all revolutions, are great driving forces, which in their action and reaction upon conditions, give character to civilization. If, in seeking to discover the source...
Xiv. Woman And The New Morality : CHAPTER XIV WOMAN AND THE NEW MORALITY UPON the shoulders of the woman conscious of her freedom rests the responsibility of creating a new sex morality. The vital difference between a morality thus created by women and the so-called morality of to-day, is that the new standard will be based up...
Xvi. Why Not Birth Control Clinics In America : CHAPTER XVI WHY NOT BIRTH-CONTROL CLINICS IN AMERICA[*] THE absurd cruelty of permitting thousands of women each year to go through abortions to prevent the aggravation of diseases for which they are under treatment assuredly cannot be much longer ignored by the medical profession. Responsibility...
X. Contraceptives Or Abortion : CHAPTER X CONTRACEPTIVES OR ABORTION? SOCIETY has not yet learned the significance of the age-long effort of the feminine spirit to free itself of the burden of excessive childbearing. It has been singularly blind to the real forces underlying the cause of infanticide, child abandonment...
Ix. Continence Is It Practicable Or Desirable : CHAPTER IX CONTINENCE--IS IT PRACTICABLE OR DESIRABLE? THOUSANDS of well-intentioned people who agree that there are times and conditions under which it is woman's highest duty to avoid having children advocate continence as the one permissible means of birth control. Few of these people agree with...
Iv. Two Classes Of Women : CHAPTER IV TWO CLASSES OF WOMEN THUS far we have been discussing mainly one class in America--the workers. Most women who belong to the workers' families have no accurate or reliable knowledge of contraceptives, and are, therefore, bringing children into the world so rapidly that they, their...
Xviii. The Goal : CHAPTER XVIII THE GOAL WHAT is the goal of woman's upward struggle? Is it voluntary motherhood? Is it general freedom? Or is it the birth of a new race? For freedom is not fruitless, but prolific of higher things. Being the most sacred aspect of woman's freedom, voluntary motherhood is motherhood...
Vii. When Should A Woman Avoid Having Children : CHAPTER VII WHEN SHOULD A WOMAN AVOID HAVING CHILDREN? ARE overburdened mothers justified in their appeals for contraceptives or abortions? What shall we say to women who write such letters as those published in the preceding chapter? Will anyone, after reading those letters, dare to say to these...
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Xvii. Progress We Have Made : CHAPTER XVII PROGRESS WE HAVE MADE THE silence of the centuries has been broken. The wrongs of woman and the rights of woman have found voices. These voices differ from all others that have been raised in woman's behalf. They are not the individual protests of great feminine minds, n...
V. The Wickedness Of Creating Large Families : CHAPTER V THE WICKEDNESS OF CREATING LARGE FAMILIES THE most serious evil of our times is that of encouraging the bringing into the world of large families. The most immoral practice of the day is breeding too many children. These statements may startle those who have never made a thorough...
Preface : PREFACE THE modern Woman Movement, like the modern Labour Movement, may be said to have begun in the Eighteenth century. The Labour movement arose out of the Industrial Revolution with its resultant tendency to over-population, to unrestricted competition, to social misery and disorder. The Wom...
Vi. Cries Of Despair : CHAPTER VI CRIES OF DESPAIR AND SOCIETY'S PROBLEMS BEFORE we pass to a further consideration of our subject, shall we not pause to take a still closer look at the human misery wrought by the enslavement of women through unwilling motherhood? Would you know the appalling sum of this misery better...
