HIS-215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: American Birth Control League, Margaret Sanger, Emma Goldman
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3 short answers questions each based on a term talked about in class. Radicalism and the red scare: feminism and birth control. American birth control league: feminism and birth control. 1915: margaret sanger and emma goldman de ed obscenity laws by distributing information on birth control. Sanger saw birth control as a means to help working class women. Introduced direct action techniques to growing network of local birth control organizations. Wwi and red scare caused an attack on the left. Woman su rage movement an example of organizations shifting to the right. Birth control became dominated by social workers, and movement lost focus on working - class women"s social and economic needs. Eugenics: theory of improving human stock through selective breeding (positive) and seeking out un t (negative) Center of science in context of time period. Eugenicists saw themselves as reformers, solving us problems through marriage, counseling and licensing, immigration restriction, contraception and sterilization.
