History 2181A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Margaret Sanger, Vigilante, Anthony Comstock
20 Dec 2017
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Lecture 5: causes of urban middle class reformers (mid to late 19th century - still victorian era) Final exam: non-cumulative on friday december 15 from 7 - 9 pm. Concepts of obscenity and censorship (today), eugenics movement, prostitution and venereal disease. See extensive industrialization and urbanization - came a plethra of social problems. Poverty, creation of slums, overcrowding, disease, addictions, crime. All of these problems - were somehow connected and related to ideas of sex and sexuality. White middle class reformers - did not blame problems on industrial capitilzation - instead blamed the problems on working class & immigrants - easier to blame them than industrial capitalists. Working class and immigrants & colored & non-christians inherently seen as morally inferior and problems of the city were all their fault. This idea was one of the forces behind the eugenics movememt.
