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Reinventing Eugenics: Reproductive Choice And Law Reform After World War Ii, Mary Ziegler
Reinventing Eugenics: Reproductive Choice And Law Reform After World War Ii, Mary Ziegler
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Note, Eugenic Feminism: Mental Hygiene, The Women's Movement, And The Campaign For Eugenic Legal Reform, 1900-1935, Mary Ziegler
Note, Eugenic Feminism: Mental Hygiene, The Women's Movement, And The Campaign For Eugenic Legal Reform, 1900-1935, Mary Ziegler
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It is well for every woman, however, to think this matter through and to realize that any women’s movement that is correlated with sterility is doomed to fail and annihilation. What shall it profit us eugenically to have women delve in laboratories, or search the heavens, or rule the nations, if the world is to be peopled by scrubwomen and peasants? – Anna M. Blount, Eugenics, in Woman and the Larger Citizenship, 2847, 2904-05 (Shailer Mathews ed., 1913).
Part I of this article examines the evolution of eugenic thought and policy in the United States between 1880 and 1935, …