Sociology 2239 Lecture Notes - Eugenics, Reproductive Rights, Social Darwinism
10 Dec 2013
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Concerned with the improvement of the human race. Some people have negative traits, goal to remove these negative traits and promote only positive traits to be passed to future generations. People with superior genes seen to not produce enough offspring. Restrict those who can immigrate to prevent being overrun by inferior races and prevent racial mixing. Believed whites mixing with colour would cause disabilities in offspring. Everyone thought it was scientific because that"s how it has advertised, prominent figure promoted it. Had to gain support from wider group of people. Majority of women sterilized were black, asian, and poor. Puerto-rican women given much stronger pill than americans. Animals survive through bloody competition and the strongest survive. Family limitation: between socialism, capitalism and women"s autonomy. Hard for women to gain support for reproductive rights. Women were producing many children because they didn"t know how to use/we not allowed to use birth control.
