Fruits of Philosophy
Author | : Charles Knowlton |
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Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1878 |
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Author | : Charles Knowlton |
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Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1878 |
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Author | : Charles Knowlton |
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Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1877 |
Genre | : Birth control |
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Author | : S. Chandrasekhar |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2018-04-27 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1351307304 |
"I say that this is a dirty, filthy book, and the test of it is that no human being would allow that book on his table, no decently educated English husband would allow even his wife to have ità." Such was the uncompromising pronouncement of Sir Hardinge Gifford, Her Majesty's Solicitor General, who in 1877 prosecuted Charles Bradlaugh and Annie Besant for publishing Dr. Charles Knowlton's Fruits of Philosophy.Knowlton's work was the first American medical handbook on contraception. It had become an incredibly popular book among Britons who believed the neo-Malthusian dictum that the only solution to poverty in Britain was a limit on the growth of its population. They saw effective birth control measures as a way to make such a limit practicable. In 1877, its publisher was hauled into court and pleaded guilty to printing obscene material. Bradlaugh and Besant tested the right of official harassment by bringing out an edition of the Fruits of Philosophy that bore an introduction explaining their motives. The pair was arrested and charged with violating the Obscene Publications Act of 1857.Their arrest, trial, conviction, and eventual acquittal constitute a landmark in the history of the world birth control movement. The enormous publicity accorded the principals and their cause brought the subject of family planning into the homes of nearly every Briton who read the newspapers' sensational coverage. What followed thereafter is telling: a dramatic, steady decline in the English birthrate. By their simple act of publishing Knowlton's short book, Bradlaugh and Besant helped establish England's pioneering role in the dissemination, democratization, and implementation of birth control information.Sripati Chandrasekhar is an internationally respected demographer and social scientist. He is a former minister of health and family planning in India and was vice-chancellor of Annamalai University in South India. He is the author of numerous books and articles on population and family planning.
Author | : Charles Charles Knowlton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2018-05-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781717594808 |
Though you might not suspect it from its misleadingly dry title, Fruits of Philosophy caused quite a stir in its day. Rather than being an august treatise on the works of Aristotle and Socrates, this slim volume produced by a renegade Massachusetts physician in the early 1830s compiled the most up-to-date information then known about sex, conception, and birth control. The author was later convicted of indecency and sentenced to a term of hard labor.
Author | : Dan Allosso |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Birth control |
ISBN | : 9781482678680 |
An Infidel Body-Snatcher and the Fruits of His Philosophy is the story of a freethinker. Charles Knowlton called himself a "free enquirer"-his enemies called him an "Infidel." Knowlton was also a "Body-Snatcher." As a medical student, Charles Knowlton stole corpses to dissect. Charles was caught and convicted, and served time in jail. After a troubled youth, Knowlton became a doctor and wrote America's first birth control book, Fruits of Philosophy, in 1831. He was convicted and imprisoned for that as well-this time with hard labor. Charles was an outsider for most of his life, fighting religious and social conformity. This is a true story about why outsiders are important, and what they can achieve. Growing up surrounded by superstition and hypocrisy, Charles developed an unswerving dedication to finding and telling the truth. If the truth he'd found was opposed by authorities in the church and government, Charles went ahead and told it anyway. This is a true story about the power of integrity. It's also an adventure story, full of conflict, drama, humor, and a little horror. Charles Knowlton led an unusual life; it gave him a radical outlook and led him to develop a unique personal philosophy. But it was what Charles did with this outlook-the fruits of his philosophy-that really mattered. This is a true story about how experiences become ideas, and how ideas become actions. WHAT ARE PEOPLE SAYING? "The prose is so smooth and conversational that the text sails on by. And what you're writing ABOUT is so valuable and timely that to make it as accessible as you do is a real service to our culture. If 'culture WAR' is an accurate description of what's going on, then this is powerful weapon for the good guys." ---Terry Davis, Author of Vision Quest "Charles Knowlton, doctor, freethinker, and early advocate of contraception, is best remembered for his manual on birth control, 'The Fruits of Philosophy', which appeared in 1832 and which led to his prosecution and imprisonment. This superb biography of Knowlton by Dan Allosso, the first ever to be published, is based on the most thorough research and written with admirable clarity and understanding. This is a biography to be enjoyed by every lover of freethought." ---Bryan Niblett, Author of Dare to Stand Alone: The Story of Charles Bradlaugh "This is really great. I love reading about my home town -- no one ever writes about Greenfield, Massachusetts. And I love the rich guy excommunicating the church. How hip is that?" ---Penn Jillette, Author of God, No! "History isn't always made by Great Persons engineering Great Compromises. Sometimes society moves forward because a common man or woman takes up a radical cause and pursues it without regard to consequences. Charles Knowlton was such a man, undeservedly ignored by mainstream historians. Dan Allosso's capable new biography of Knowlton illuminates the promise - and the pitfalls - of radical social change pursued from society's rank and file." ---Tom Flynn, Editor, FREE INQUIRY Magazine "An interesting, engaging, and at times fascinating account of a little-known American hero. Dan Allosso has soundly crafted an excellent biography." ---Phil Zuckerman, PhD, Author of Faith No More: Why People Reject Religion
Author | : Alfred Weber |
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Total Pages | : 652 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
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Author | : Charles Knowlton |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1880 |
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Author | : Melissa Shew |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2020-10-12 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0190072911 |
"This revolutionary book empowers its readers intellectually by providing a snapshot of perennial and timely philosophical topics. Written by twenty expert women in philosophy and representing a diverse and pluralistic approach to philosophy as a discipline, this book appeals to a wide audience. Individual readers, especially girls and women ages 16-24, as well as university and high school educators and students who want a change from standard anthologies that include few or no women will find value in these pages. This volume contains several notable features: the book is divided into four sections that correspond to major fields in Philosophy-metaphysics, epistemology, social and political philosophy, and ethics-but the chapters within those sections provide fresh ways of understanding those fields. " Every chapter begins with a lively anecdote about a girl or woman in literature, myth, history, science, or art to introduce the chapter's specific topic." Chapters are dominated by women's voices, with nearly all primary and secondary sources used coming from women in the history of philosophy and a diverse set of contemporary women philosophers. "All chapters offer the authors' distinct philosophical perspectives written in their own voices and styles, representing diverse training, backgrounds, and interests." The Introduction and Prologue explicitly invite the book's readers to engage in philosophical conversation and reflection, thus setting the stage for continued contemplation and dialogue beyond the book itself. The result is a rigorous yet accessible entry-point into serious philosophical contemplation designed to embolden and strengthen its readers' own senses of philosophical inquiry and competence. The book's readers will feel confident in knowing that expert women affirm an equitable and just intellectual landscape for all and thus have lovingly collaborated to write this book"--
Author | : Charles Knowlton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 2018-01-24 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781976990403 |
Charles Bradlaugh, (1833 -- 1891), British radical and atheist, a freethinker in the tradition of Voltaire and Thomas Paine, prominent throughout most of the second half of the 19th century for his championship of individual liberties.From 1874 to about 1885 he was closely associated with Annie Besant, an advocate of numerous radical causes. In 1876 the Bristol publisher of Fruits of Philosophy, a birth-control pamphlet by Charles Knowlton, a physician in the United States, was given a light sentence for selling an indecent work. To vindicate their ideas of freedom, Bradlaugh and Besant republished the book in London in 1877 and circulated it aggressively, incurring much more severe penalties. Their indictments were nullified on a technical point, however.(The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica)
Author | : Shana Klein |
Publisher | : University of California Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2020-10-13 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0520296397 |
The Fruits of Empire is a history of American expansion through the lens of art and food. In the decades after the Civil War, Americans consumed an unprecedented amount of fruit as it grew more accessible with advancements in refrigeration and transportation technologies. This excitement for fruit manifested in an explosion of fruit imagery within still life paintings, prints, trade cards, and more. Images of fruit labor and consumption by immigrants and people of color also gained visibility, merging alongside the efforts of expansionists to assimilate land and, in some cases, people into the national body. Divided into five chapters on visual images of the grape, orange, watermelon, banana, and pineapple, this book demonstrates how representations of fruit struck the nerve of the nation’s most heated debates over land, race, and citizenship in the age of high imperialism.