There is a lot of disinformation and purposeful lies being put out about Sanger. It is best to read her work for yourself. However as with all historical literature, you must keep in mind the author's position in history.
View 1 comment. Feb 22, Yuri Zbitnoff rated it did not like it Shelves: womyn-s-studies , politics , old-tyme-relijun , disturbing. Margaret Sanger's batshit eugenics and birth control manifesto. Rife with idiotic nonsense, racism, supremacist bullshit, utopian delusions, misanthropy and cynicism.
In other words, a perfect template for contemporary feminism. Vile and contemptible in almost every way. Mar 18, Kelly rated it really liked it. This book was fascinating. Margaret Sanger was a feminist who challenged society's thinking of who women are and what they want.
At some points in the book I was cheering Ms. Sanger on. At other points I was appalled at her ideas. But no matter what part of the book I was in, I was fascinated. Becky Cook's narration of this book is excellent. I find it quite interesting to hear Sanger's arguments for women's access to birth control. I can't imagine going through Life without it! Do I agree with everything Sanger puts forth? For one thing, she falls for the blame-the-victim trap a bit. But she has so much good debating going on otherwise.
On the contrary, she clearly cared deeply about the plight of women and their children. Everything about this book is in defense of the quality of their lives.
As for her version of eugenics, her argument that women's access to birth control would result in a better race was NOT talking about weeding out certain ethnicities, but of creating a strong, healthy American melting pot race that could benefit from the best attributes the immigrated races contribute, buoyed up by strong health achieved because women were not made to bear overlarge families impossible to be cared for properly. This is a historically important work in women's history in the U.
Jul 13, Ekagra rated it it was ok. Since anyone deemed insufficiently loyal to the woke progressive creed of — including, apparently, Ulysses S. Grant, Frederick Douglass, Matthias Baldwin, the 54th Regiment, George Washington, Mahatma Gandhi, and even the poor elk in Portland — is getting their statues and memorials defaced, vandalized, toppled, or removed, I wonder if the puritanical pseudo-moral outrage brigade will ever train its gaze on Margaret Sanger's bust at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, considering s Since anyone deemed insufficiently loyal to the woke progressive creed of — including, apparently, Ulysses S.
Grant, Frederick Douglass, Matthias Baldwin, the 54th Regiment, George Washington, Mahatma Gandhi, and even the poor elk in Portland — is getting their statues and memorials defaced, vandalized, toppled, or removed, I wonder if the puritanical pseudo-moral outrage brigade will ever train its gaze on Margaret Sanger's bust at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, considering some of the 'progressive' nuggets of wisdom she had to offer: "Among our more than ,, population are Negroes, Indians, Chinese and other colored people to the number of 11,, There are also 14,, persons of foreign birth.
Besides these there are 14,, children of foreign-born parents and 6,, persons whose fathers or mothers were born on foreign soil, making a total of 46,, people of foreign stock… and of the 8,, who arrived in the period, 2,, could not read or write. Do these elements give promise of a better race? That these foreigners who have come in hordes have brought with them their ignorance of hygiene and modern ways of living and that they are handicapped by religious superstitions is only too true… Moreover, there were in the United States in , 5,, illiterates.
Of these less than a quarter were of pure native white stock. In some states in the South as much as 29 per cent of the population is illiterate, many of these, of course, being Negroes. The close relationship between poverty and ignorance and the production of feebleminded is shown by Anne Moore, Ph.
She found that an overwhelming proportion of the classified feebleminded children in New York schools came from large families living in overcrowded slum conditions, and that only a small percentage were born of native parents.
In the case of the mother, heart disease, kidney trouble and pelvic deformities are also a serious bar to childbearing… A tendency to insanity, if not insanity itself, may be transmitted to the child, or it may be feebleminded if one of the parents is insane or suffers from any mental disorder. Drunkenness in the parent or parents has been found to be the cause of feeblemindedness in the offspring and to leave the child with a constitution too weak to resist disease as it should.
No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective. Jun 21, Grace Garner rated it it was ok Shelves: non-fiction , scholastic. A brief summary: "Overpopulation is the source of all of mankind's troubles.
Therefore, giving woman freedom from the men and children who enslave them and allowing her 'feminine spirit' to flourish exclusively by using birth control will solve all of mankind's troubles. Also if most people do not have sex whenever they want their genitals will shrivel up and they will go crazy and die. I'm just getting ammunition on this eugenicist psychopath. Jul 31, Amanda Adams rated it it was ok. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here.
As a pro-life Christian, I read this book to find out what Margaret Sanger actually believed and wrote because I didn't want to get my information about her from Facebook memes and things my friends and family had "heard" about her.
I was surprised to learn that at the time she wrote this book, she did NOT support abortion. She lists abortion alongside infanticide and child abandonment as "horrors" p. This statement honestly seemed out of place with the rest of her arguments throughout the book, which were against killing children. She describes life beginning at conception: "If no children are desired, the meeting of the male sperm and the ovum must be prevented.
When scientific means are employed to prevent this meeting, one is said to practice birth control. The means used is known as a contraceptive. If, however, a contraceptive is not used and the sperm meets the ovule and the development begins, any attempt at removing it or stopping its further growth is called abortion" p.
Sanger advocates for the use of contraceptives and quotes Dr. Birth control the kind that prevents conception, not abortifacients is the main thrust of her book. Also, medical care was limited at the time, so there were many deaths from childbirth. This is an interesting left wing before it was coopted by big business and infected by critical school , feminist, and humanist book advocating for birth control as a panacea for war, crime, and other social ills.
Sanger's vision of voluntary birth control has largely failed, however, as idiots and fundies not using birth control are still popping them out like hot cakes. Her utopian vision requires an authoritarian state a la China with the 1 child policy for proper execution. This was not surprising if you have heard about Margaret Sanger from a historical perspective. So in a way I knew what I would be getting into, but at the same time I was hoping that she would expand into large issues around women of the time period.
Everything she talks about in the book we take for granted in present times. Oct 10, Feride added it. It's an interesting piece of first wave feminism, well researched, argued and must have been cutting edge scientific in Jul 30, Daniel Ogburn rated it did not like it. The founder of planned parenthood advocated for birth control but for all the wrong reasons. That was very interesting for the time period.
Some views a little too far. Mar 10, Amy rated it liked it. Great ideas, and forward thinking for the time, but very repetitive. One of my ultimate favorite's, she was the first to pioneer the woman's movement in the advancement of birth control. Taxes where applicable.
Publisher's Summary Margaret Sanger was an American sex educator and birth control activist. Public Domain P Museum Audiobooks. Americas Social Sciences Biological Sciences. Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews. Amazon Reviews. Sort by:. Most Helpful Most Recent. Filter by:. All stars 5 star only 4 star only 3 star only 2 star only 1 star only. Nancy DeLaCruz Offers a clear view of early Eugenics As the founder of planned parenthood, and often the champion of the Left, Sanger reiterates the need to control population growth, which is so often abandoned from pro-choice activists.
In , the year Sanger died, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. There is a striking kinship between our movement and Margaret Sanger's early efforts. Our sure beginning in the struggle for equality by nonviolent direct action may not have been so resolute without the tradition established by Margaret Sanger and people like her. Sanger's opposition to abortion has to be considered in the light of the reality of pre-Roe v. Wade 'back-alley' abortion, which often had fatal or harmful side-effects.
She states that she would not be opposed to abortion if it could be performed safely. Sangers' transcendent and very spiritual vision of women and humanity in general free from the shackles of sexual repression and endless child-bearing is impressive, and overwhelms the shortcomings of this book.
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