Woman and the New Race: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Woman and the New Race, 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 Woman and the New Race by Margaret Sanger. Read by Becky Cook. Margaret Sanger was an American sex educator and nurse who became one of the leading birth control activists of her time, having at one point, even served jail time for importing birth control pills, then illegal, into the United States. Woman and the New Race is her treatise on how the control of population size would not only free women from the bondage of forced motherhood, but would elevate all of society. The original fight for birth control was closely tied to the labor movement as well as the Eugenics movement, and her book provides fascinating insight to a mostly-forgotten turbulent battle recently fought in American history. (Summary by Becky)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Woman and the New Race
• Author credits: Margaret Sanger
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 19
• Listed recording duration: 4:05:56

Catalogue topics

• audio
• sanger
• birth control
• feminist history
• politics
• women's rights
• feminist movement

Track guide

1. 01 - Preface and Dedication by Havelock Ellis — 3:53
2. 02 - Woman's Error and Her Debt — 8:39
3. 03 - Woman's Struggle For Freedom — 23:17
4. 04 - The Material of the New Race — 18:37
5. 05 - Two Classes of Women — 9:50
6. 06 - The Wickedness of Creating Large Families — 15:33
7. 07 - Cries of Despair — 15:59
8. 08 - When Should A Woman Avoid Having Children? — 8:03
9. 09 - Birth Control- A Parent's Problem or a Woman's? — 8:07
10. 10 - Continence- Is It Practicable or Desirable? — 17:27
11. 11 - Contraceptives or Abortion? — 12:02
12. 12 - Are Preventive Means Certain? — 7:16
13. 13 - Will Birth Control Help the Cause of Labor? — 13:12
14. 14 - Battalions of Unwanted Babies the Cause of War — 15:44
15. 15 - Woman and the New Mortality — 17:54
16. 16 - Legislating Woman's Morals — 12:18
17. 17 - Why Not Birth Control Clinics in America? — 11:05
18. 18 - Progress We have Made — 17:02
19. 19 - The Goal — 10:06

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