Saving Babies and Sterilizing Mothers: Eugenics and Welfare Politics in the Interwar United States

Ladd-Taylor, Molly

doi:10.1093/sp/4.1.136

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“…Yates, Caleb Saleeby, John Maynard Keynes, Leonard Darwin, Henry Goddard, Paul Popenoe, Margaret Sanger, Eugen Fischer, Ernst Rüdin, and Julius Evola, etc) were articulated with very different concerns and very particular contexts in mind. The literature on these different eugenics is vast; a good starting point can be found in Bashford and Levine, 2010; for a small sample also see, Love, 1979;Paul, 1984;Weiss, 1987;Kühl, 1994;Tucker, 1994;Dikötter, 1998;Weizmann, 1998;Zenderland, 1998aZenderland, , 1998bLadd-Taylor, 1997;Stone, 2001;Dowbiggin, 2003;Spiro, 2008;Hart, 2007;O'Loughlin and Cassata, 2011;Lombardo, 2011;Levine, 2017. 5 On algorithms of the soul and mathematical psycho-physiology, especially regarding C. Henry, cited by Spearman and Hart, see Brain, 2015.…”

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Sordid genealogies: a conjectural history of Cambridge Analytica’s eugenic roots

Wintroub¹

2020

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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Roots" explores the history of the methods employed by Cambridge Analytica to influence the 2016 US presidential election. It focuses on the history of psychometric analysis, trait psychology, the lexical hypothesis and multivariate factor analysis, and how they developed in close conjunction with the history of eugenics. More particularly, it will analyze how the work of Francis Galton, Ludwig Klages, Charles Spearman, and Raymond Cattell (among others) contributed to the manifold translations between statistics, the pseudoscience of eugenics, the politics of Trumpism, and the data driven psychology of the personality championed by Cambridge Analytica.

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Sordid genealogies: a conjectural history of Cambridge Analytica’s eugenic roots

Wintroub¹

2020

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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“…wymuszone sterylizacje). W wielu miejscach na świecie kobiety z niepełnosprawnościami podlegały przymusowej sterylizacji (o czym często nawet nie były informowane) i wymuszonym aborcjom, ograniczaniu prawa do małżeństwa, odbieraniu prawa do opieki nad dzieckiem, a także segregowaniu w instytucjach kontrolujących ich seksualność (McLaren 1990;Malacrida 2015;Ladd-Taylor 1997;Musielak 2008). Międzynarodowe raporty poświadczają, że ta kontrola płodności -w zróżnicowanym stopniu w zależności np.…”

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Król

2018

Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia De Cultura

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Disability and reproductive justice. Mapping disabled women’s experiences The aim of this paper is to map experiences of disabled women regarding parenthood and childfreeness/childlessness as well as support in upbringing their own children. The concept of reproductive justice is employed, as it proposes a critical approach to understanding how societies construct who can and should be a parent. Approaching the question of individual choice in a broad social context, I analyse factors that shape experiences of disabled women in Poland (e.g. restrictions on parenting of disabled persons or lack of marriage equality). Keywords: reproductive justice, disabled women, motherhood, reproductive choice

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“…The popularity of eugenics beliefs in the latter part of the 19 th century can be traced, in large part, to the faith and hope invested by politicians and social elites in a vision of “progress” and in the power of science to achieve this vision (Ladd‐Taylor 1997; McLaren 1990; Paul 1995; Rafter 1992; Reilly 1991). Underneath such “progressive” goals lay solidly‐entrenched patterns of structured social inequality and equally pervasive racist and sexist attitudes and beliefs.…”

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Sterilizing the “Feeble‐minded”: Eugenics in Alberta, Canada, 1929–1972

Grekul¹,

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Odynak³

2004

J Historical Sociology

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Between 1929 and1972, the Alberta Eugenics Board recommended that 4739 residents of the province be sterilized. However, only 60% of these individuals, 2834 in total, were ultimately sterilized since the legislation under which the Eugenics Board operated required patient consent to be obtained unless the individual recommended for sterilization was diagnosed as "mentally defective." Women, teenagers and young adults, and Aboriginals were particularly targeted by the Alberta Eugenics Board. The Board pursued its sterilization mandate extremely aggressively and, because of a unique set of social, political and economic circumstances in the province, continued to operate long after other political jurisdictions in North America had set aside their involuntary sterilization programs.

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Saving Babies and Sterilizing Mothers: Eugenics and Welfare Politics in the Interwar United States

Cited by 23 publications

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Sordid genealogies: a conjectural history of Cambridge Analytica’s eugenic roots

Sordid genealogies: a conjectural history of Cambridge Analytica’s eugenic roots

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Sterilizing the “Feeble‐minded”: Eugenics in Alberta, Canada, 1929–1972

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