Conceiving the Future: Pronatalism, Reproduction, and the Family in the United States, 1890-1938Univ of North Carolina Press, 2009. 11. 30. - 248페이지 Through nostalgic idealizations of motherhood, family, and the home, influential leaders in early twentieth-century America constructed and legitimated a range of reforms that promoted human reproduction. Their pronatalism emerged from a modernist conviction that reproduction and population could be regulated. European countries sought to regulate or encourage reproduction through legislation; America, by contrast, fostered ideological and cultural ideas of pronatalism through what Laura Lovett calls "nostalgic modernism," which romanticized agrarianism and promoted scientific racism and eugenics. Lovett looks closely at the ideologies of five influential American figures: Mary Lease's maternalist agenda, Florence Sherbon's eugenic "fitter families" campaign, George Maxwell's "homecroft" movement of land reclamation and home building, Theodore Roosevelt's campaign for conservation and country life, and Edward Ross's sociological theory of race suicide and social control. Demonstrating the historical circumstances that linked agrarianism, racism, and pronatalism, Lovett shows how reproductive conformity was manufactured, how it was promoted, and why it was coercive. In addition to contributing to scholarship in American history, gender studies, rural studies, and environmental history, Lovett's study sheds light on the rhetoric of "family values" that has regained currency in recent years. |
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... roles, family norms, and even feminism, Blake argued, carried implicit and explicit endorsements of women's purported responsibility to reproduce. The relentless and pervasive nature of these messages led Blake to argue that American ...
... roles, family norms, and even feminism, Blake argued, carried implicit and explicit endorsements of women's purported responsibility to reproduce. The relentless and pervasive nature of these messages led Blake to argue that American ...
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... roles as mothers and the interest of elite reformers and the state in maintaining that role. Many scholars interpret the reformulation of women's roles in public policy in terms of the wider application of maternal values of care and ...
... roles as mothers and the interest of elite reformers and the state in maintaining that role. Many scholars interpret the reformulation of women's roles in public policy in terms of the wider application of maternal values of care and ...
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... roles expanded.∞≥ The family ethic contributed to the image of men as ''providers'' and to the ideology of the family wage, which asserted that industry provided wages su≈cient to support an entire family. Protective labor ...
... roles expanded.∞≥ The family ethic contributed to the image of men as ''providers'' and to the ideology of the family wage, which asserted that industry provided wages su≈cient to support an entire family. Protective labor ...
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... roles of women. In general, white women were working more outside the home, obtaining more higher education, and increasing their public activity in a variety of civic clubs ad organizations. Motherhood and family seemed to be ...
... roles of women. In general, white women were working more outside the home, obtaining more higher education, and increasing their public activity in a variety of civic clubs ad organizations. Motherhood and family seemed to be ...
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... role in this unit as bearing and raising children for the benefit of the race and the state. This distinctively American form of pronatalism was widely debated during the controversy over race suicide but also informed Roosevelt's ...
... role in this unit as bearing and raising children for the benefit of the race and the state. This distinctively American form of pronatalism was widely debated during the controversy over race suicide but also informed Roosevelt's ...
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Mary Elizabeth Leases Maternalist Agenda | 17 |
George H Maxwell and the Homecroft Movement | 45 |
Edward A Ross and Race Suicide | 77 |
Theodore Roosevelt and the Conservation of the Race | 109 |
Florence Sherbon and Popular Eugenics | 131 |
7 American Pronatalism | 163 |
Notes | 173 |
Bibliography | 207 |
Index | 229 |
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90 페이지 - You come to us and tell us that the great cities are in favor of the gold standard; we reply that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.
33 페이지 - She stood nearly six feet tall, with no figure, a thick torso, and long legs. To me, she often looked like a kangaroo pyramided up from the hips to a comparatively small head.
80 페이지 - Our people had to look upon houses that were mere shells for human habitations, the gate unhung, the shutters flapping or falling, green pools in the yard, babes and young children rolling about half naked or worse, neglected, dirty, unkempt.
4 페이지 - But Home is not contained within the four walls of an individual home. Home is the community. The city full of people is the Family. The public school is the real Nursery.
26 페이지 - O'er lesser powers that be; But a mightier power and stronger Man from his throne has hurled, For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.
1 페이지 - TO STUDY THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN FAMILY is to Conduct a rescue mission into the dreamland of our national selfconcept. No subject is more closely bound up with our sense of a difficult present — and our nostalgia for a happier past.
113 페이지 - If there is one lesson taught by history, it is that the permanent greatness of any state must ultimately depend more upon the character of its country population than upon anything else. No growth of cities, no growth of wealth, can make up for a loss in either the number or the character of the farming population.
29 페이지 - We went to work and plowed and planted; the rains fell, the sun shone, nature smiled, and we raised the big crop that they told us to; and what came of it?
30 페이지 - Overproduction when 10,000 little children, so statistics tell us, starve to death every year in the United States, and over 100,000 shop-girls in New York are forced to sell their virtue for the bread their niggardly wages deny them.