The Pivot of Civilization: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Pivot of Civilization, credited to Margaret Sanger, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. Arguably her most important and influential book, this controversial work, first published in 1922 by pioneering birth-control advocate Margaret Sanger, attempted to broaden the still-radical idea of birth control beyond its socialist and feminist roots. Moving away from a single-minded focus on women's reproductive rights to the larger issue of the general health and economic prosperity of the whole human race, Sanger argued that birth control was pivotal to a rational approach toward dealing with the threat of overpopulation and its ruinous consequences in poverty and disease. Through this book Sanger hoped to persuade the medical establishment to assume control over contraceptive distribution, and thereby to lessen the religious, legal, and moral opposition that continued to restrict access to contraceptive information. - Summary by Open Library

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Pivot of Civilization
• Author credits: Margaret Sanger
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 25
• Listed recording duration: 7:04:24

Catalogue topics

• feminism
• politics
• women's rights
• birth control
• feminist history
• feminist movement
• reform
• women's health

Opening tracks: first 24 of 25

1. 00 - Dedication, by Havelock Ellis — 1:15
2. 01 - Introduction, by H.G. Wells — 13:24
3. 02 - Chapter I: A New Truth Emerges — 20:22
4. 03 - Chapter I: Continued — 19:38
5. 04 - Chapter II: Conscripted Motherhood — 19:34
6. 05 - Chapter II: Continued — 19:26
7. 06 - Chapter III: "Children Troop Down From Heaven...." — 23:43
8. 07 - Chapter III: Continued — 14:49
9. 08 - Chapter IV: The Fertility of the Feeble-Minded — 21:13
10. 09 - Chapter IV: Continued — 14:30
11. 10 - Chapter V: The Cruelty of Charity — 10:30
12. 11 - Chapter V: Continued — 12:17
13. 12 - Chapter VI: Neglected Factors of the World Problem — 18:01
14. 13 - Chapter VI: Continued — 16:08
15. 14 - Chapter VII: Is Revolution the Remedy? — 17:52
16. 15 - Chapter VII: Continued — 18:43
17. 16 - Chapter VIII: Dangers of Cradle Competition — 15:27
18. 17 - Chapter VIII: Continued — 14:25
19. 18 - Chapter IX: A Moral Necessity — 21:11
20. 19 - Chapter IX: Continued — 22:41
21. 20 - Chapter X: Science the Ally — 16:39
22. 21 - Chapter X: Continued — 15:42
23. 22 - Chapter XI: Education and Expression — 24:20
24. 23 - Chapter XII: Woman and the Future — 25:27

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