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- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Field and Discipline
- 2 Geopolitics and War
- 3 Imperialism
- 4 Anticolonialism
- 5 International Law and International Organization
- 6 Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
- 7 World Peace
- 8 World Economy
- 9 Men, Women, and Gender
- 10 Public Opinion and Education
- 11 Population, Nation, Immigration
- From “The Right of Nations to Self-Determination” (1907)
- From Pivot of Civilization (1922)
- From Modern Immigration (1925)
- From Neuroses of the Nations (1925)
- From The Protection of Minorities (1928)
- From “Caravans of Sorrow: Noncitizen Americans of the Southwest” (1940)
- From “Conditional Philanthropy towards Colored Students in Britain” (1960)
- From “Minority Peoples in China” (1961)
- Rosa Luxemburg
- Margaret Sanger
- Annie Marion Maclean
- Caroline Playne
- Lucy Philip Mair
- Luisa Moreno
- Sheila Kitzinger
- Shirley Graham
- 12 Technology, Progress, and Environment
- 13 Religion and Ethics
- Index
Margaret Sanger
from 11 - Population, Nation, Immigration
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2022
- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Field and Discipline
- 2 Geopolitics and War
- 3 Imperialism
- 4 Anticolonialism
- 5 International Law and International Organization
- 6 Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
- 7 World Peace
- 8 World Economy
- 9 Men, Women, and Gender
- 10 Public Opinion and Education
- 11 Population, Nation, Immigration
- From “The Right of Nations to Self-Determination” (1907)
- From Pivot of Civilization (1922)
- From Modern Immigration (1925)
- From Neuroses of the Nations (1925)
- From The Protection of Minorities (1928)
- From “Caravans of Sorrow: Noncitizen Americans of the Southwest” (1940)
- From “Conditional Philanthropy towards Colored Students in Britain” (1960)
- From “Minority Peoples in China” (1961)
- Rosa Luxemburg
- Margaret Sanger
- Annie Marion Maclean
- Caroline Playne
- Lucy Philip Mair
- Luisa Moreno
- Sheila Kitzinger
- Shirley Graham
- 12 Technology, Progress, and Environment
- 13 Religion and Ethics
- Index
Summary
Motherhood, which is not only the oldest but the most important profession in the world, has received few of the benefits of civilization. It is a curious fact that a civilization devoted to mother-worship, that publicly professes a worship of mother and child, should close its eyes to the appalling waste of human life and human energy resulting from those dire consequences of leaving the whole problem of child-bearing to chance and blind instinct. It would be untrue to say that among the civilized nations of the world to-day, the profession of motherhood remains in a barbarous state. The bitter truth is that motherhood, among the larger part of our population, does not rise to the level of the barbarous or the primitive. Conditions of life among the primitive tribes were rude enough and severe enough to prevent the unhealthy growth of sentimentality, and to discourage the irresponsible production of defective children. Moreover, there is ample evidence to indicate that even among the most primitive peoples the function of maternity was recognized as of primary and central importance to the community.
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- Women's International Thought: Towards a New Canon , pp. 593 - 597Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022