Part 2 of a roundtable on what global histories of racial supremacy and reproductive control can tell us about our white supremacist present
Tag: eugenics
Sexual Politics and Feminist Science: Women Sexologists in Germany, 1900-1933
German-speaking feminists created new knowledge in sexology that challenged sexist biases and expanded possibilities for gendered and sexual expression.
Moral Instruction, Venereal Disease, and Eugenic Manliness during World War I
Sexual health and the preservation of eugenically valuable British servicemen.
Contraceptive Diplomacy: Reproductive Politics & Imperial Ambitions in the United States & Japan
Contraceptive Diplomacy narrates a transnational history of birth control in the context of imperial struggles between the United States and Japan.
The Fraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908
An untold history of the early fight for homosexual rights in England.
Sexual Deviance and “Mental Defectiveness” in Eugenics Era California
The diagnosis of mental defectiveness legitimated the state’s reproductive control of sexually promiscuous and sexually violated girls and women.
Understanding Zika & the Abortion Debate in Brazil: A View from 1940
Brazil now faces both a mounting health crisis and the opportunity to revise the parameters of reproductive rights.