Social eugenics and nationalist race hygiene in early twentieth century Spain

Nash, Mary

doi:10.1016/0191-6599(92)90086-r

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“…Evitar la transmisión de ciertas enfermedades tenía como finalidad última la mejora de la raza humana a través de una selección "consciente" de los genes transmitidos a los futuros hijos; de ahí la necesidad de la generación (maternidad/paternidad) consciente. Este tipo de eugenesia positiva influyó en un discurso que sirvió de estrategia al feminismo y a la emancipación de la mujer, ya que al limitar la progenie en aras de una sociedad mejor se la liberaba a ella de la carga familiar (Nash, 1984;1992).…”

Section: Cuerpo Eugenesia Y Enfermedades De Transmisión Sexualunclassified

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Alfonso

2017

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Alfonso

2017

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“…Although scholars have claimed that racial Spanish ideas contained only a moderate biologism (Nash, 1992), it is difficult to sustain this assertion when the broader colonial or political context is considered (Cleminson, 1994). It is more likely that the boundaries between biologicism and idealism in racial discourse were never well defined and individuals frequently changed their positions over time.…”

Section: The Scientific Quest To Identify the Spanish National Subject In Equatorial Guineamentioning

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Scientific Technologies of National Identity as Colonial Legacies

Medina-Doménech

2009

Soc Stud Sci

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This paper examines how Spanish techno-scientific discourses and practices shaped metropolitan Spanish and colonial Guinean bodies and identities. It focuses on the range of technologies of biopower--from fingerprinting and blood testing to racial and geographic discourses--that constituted Guinean bodies in ambivalent ways during two periods: the first decades of the 20th century, and the post-Civil War period of the Francoist regime. In the first decades of the 20th century, blood tests were imposed on the local population as a legal requirement for obtaining identity cards in colonial Guinea; the identity cards offered them a severely restricted citizen status, especially if they were female. Indeed, the new blood testing technologies played a key role in efforts to control, reform and identify 'natives', less as subjects than as labouring bodies. During Franco's dictatorship, following the end of the Spanish Civil War (1939), the colonies became a space for the reconstruction of a unified Spanish national identity through two key strategies: 'detribalization' and 'hispanicization', which were carried out through a web of techno-scientific practices--in medicine and psychology as well as geography and anthropology--that included fingerprinting, blood testing, measurements of intelligence and racial discourses. Under the Franco regime, these practices not only justified violent, racist forms of exploitation, but were also used to stake a claim on Guinean colonial territories and bodies by emptying them of their existing identities and then reconstituting them under a single Spanish national identity.

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“…So finden sich auch biologische Untergangsängste in ausgeprägter Form in den europäischen Nachbarstaaten, ebenso wie ein erhebliches Vertrauen und oft geradezu eine Euphorie in Bezug auf die Möglichkeiten biologisch fundierter Intervention [3,5,7,11,13,14,22,25,29].…”

Section: Wissenschaft Politik Und Kultur Im Frühen 20 Jahrhundert: unclassified

Zeitgeist und Erbgesundheitsgesetzgebung im Europa der 1930er Jahre

Roelcke

2002

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The laws and related practice of sterilisation in Germany during the Nazi period (1933-1945) were not isolated phenomena. Rather, they have to be understood in the broader context of the eugenic and racial hygiene movement developing internationally during the first decades of the twentieth century. Central conditions allowing its emergence were scientific, sociopolitical, and cultural factors. Fears of biological degeneration, economic considerations, and trust in the future potential of biology and in particular genetics played a crucial role in many western societies. Eugenics and the practice of sterilisation are constitutively linked to scientific justifications, just as - complementarily - the development of genetics, in particular psychiatric genetics, is inextricably associated with eugenics and its funding by philanthropic or state institutions. Parallels and a multiplicity of mutual relations existed on various levels, in particular between Germany, the US, and Scandinavian countries.

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Social eugenics and nationalist race hygiene in early twentieth century Spain

Cited by 16 publications

References 5 publications

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Scientific Technologies of National Identity as Colonial Legacies

Zeitgeist und Erbgesundheitsgesetzgebung im Europa der 1930er Jahre

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