WGST 2P98 Chapter Notes - Chapter WGST 2P98, Week 5, Dyck and Lux, Reading Note: World Population Conference, Population Control, Reproductive Rights

• School: Brock University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 2P98
• Professor: Sharlee Cranston- Reimer

Document Summary

1973: involuntary sterilization of indigenous women. Sterilizations were part of a government effort to limit the growth of northern indigeno us. Denied the program"s suggestion that the government was pursuing a deliberate program to sterilize native women in canada. Controversy - federal government"s role in supplying contraceptive services for indige- nous people. New technologies that some viewed as a further attempt to control indigenous populations. Resistance toward contraception as a form of population control. Population control 1970s critical global issue: 1974 united nations world population conference. Concerns about a rapidly increasing population with an uneven distribut io n of resources. Political stance on the need to invoke permanent irreversible, and cheap population control measures. Endorsed the idea that poverty and lowered intelligence went hand in hand. Poor people could not be trusted to take care of their (page 484) reproduc- tive bodies and their unchecked and allegedly rampant fecundity threatened to destabilize the global economy.