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Sterilized by the state : eugenics, race, and the population scare in twentieth-century North America
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ISBN: 1107424437 1139507559 110703292X 1107659701 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book is the first comprehensive analysis of eugenics in North America focused on the second half of the twentieth century. Based on new research, Randall Hansen and Desmond King show why eugenic sterilization policies persisted after the 1940s in the United States and Canada. Through extensive archival research, King and Hansen show how both superintendents at homes for the 'feebleminded' and pro-sterilization advocates repositioned themselves after 1945 to avoid the taint of Nazi eugenics. Drawing on interviews with victims of sterilization and primary documents, this book traces the post-1940s development of eugenic policy and shows that both eugenic arguments and committed eugenicists informed population, welfare, and birth control policy in postwar America. In providing revisionist histories of the choice movement, the anti-population growth movement, and the Great Society programs, this book contributes to public policy and political and intellectual history.


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Fit to be tied : sterilization and reproductive rights in America, 1950-1980
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ISBN: 128049235X 9786613587589 0813548314 0813545277 Year: 2009 Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press,

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The 1960's revolutionized American contraceptive practice. Diaphragms, jellies, and condoms with high failure rates gave way to newer choices of the Pill, IUD, and sterilization. Fit to Be Tied provides a history of sterilization and what would prove to become, at once, socially divisive and a popular form of birth control. During the first half of the twentieth century, sterilization (tubal ligation and vasectomy) was a tool of eugenics. Individuals who endorsed crude notions of biological determinism sought to control the reproductive decisions of women they considered "unfit" by nature of race or class, and used surgery to do so. Incorporating first-person narratives, court cases, and official records, Rebecca M. Kluchin examines the evolution of forced sterilization of poor women, especially women of color, in the second half of the century and contrasts it with demands for contraceptive sterilization made by white women and men. She chronicles public acceptance during an era of reproductive and sexual freedom, and the subsequent replacement of the eugenics movement with "neo-eugenic" standards that continued to influence American medical practice, family planning, public policy, and popular sentiment.


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Sterilisation und Schwangerschaftsabbruch : eine Orientierungshilfe zu medizinischen, psychologischen und rechtlichen Fragen : einschlägige Bundesgesetze und Länderbestimmungen im Anhang
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ISBN: 3432911513 Year: 1980 Publisher: Stuttgart Enke


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Vrijwillige sterilisatie : informatie en discussie over een nieuwe vorm van geboortenregeling
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ISBN: 9060744756 Year: 1975 Publisher: Baarn Anthos

Women of color and the reproductive rights movement
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ISBN: 1429414723 0814759157 1417568666 9781417568666 9781429414722 0814758215 9780814758212 0814758274 9780814758274 9780814759158 Year: 2003 Publisher: New York New York University Press

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While most people believe that the movement to secure voluntary reproductive control for women centered solely on abortion rights, for many women abortion was not the only, or even primary, focus. Jennifer Nelson tells the story of the feminist struggle for legal abortion and reproductive rights in the 1960's, 1970's, and early 1980's through the particular contributions of women of color. She explores the relationship between second-wave feminists, who were concerned with a woman's right to choose, Black and Puerto Rican Nationalists, who were concerned that Black and Puerto Rican women have as...


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Risks, benefits, and controversies in fertility control
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ISBN: 0061423726 Year: 1978 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) Harper and Row

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Facing eugenics : reproduction, sterilization, and the politics of choice
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ISBN: 9781442699335 1442699337 1442699345 Year: 2013 Publisher: Toronto [Ontario] ; Buffalo [New York] : Beaconsfield, Quebec : University of Toronto Press, Canadian Electronic Library,

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Facing Eugenics is a social history of sexual sterilization operations in twentieth-century Canada.

Reversibility of female sterilization
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ISBN: 0121360806 0808911503 Year: 1978 Publisher: London Academic press

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