POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Class Discrimination, Immigration Policy, Misogyny
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Science of encouraging breeding among the fit whilst discouraging among the unfit. Held widespread support among the great and the good - the webbs, keynes, etc. Misogyny: sterilization was an assault and war on women. Obsession with sexual desire and control of women. In some contexts more men than women were sterilized, (1970 in india), can sterilize a man easily. Racism: blacks were not forcibly sterilized, instead they were experimented on. Key imstitution was the home for the feebleminded. Key actor was the superintendent at homes for the feebleminded. Across the us, superintendents lobbied governors to adopt legislation. And in all cases, superintendents decided whether, how, and in which number eugenic sterilization occurred. Dr le vann, the provincial training school for mental defectives, sterilized approx. All superintendents in bc sterilized together about 300 patients. Was a scientific consensus in favour of eugenic sterilization into 1920s, a progressivists one into the 1960s.
