Conceiving the Future (eBook)

Pronatalism, Reproduction, and the Family in the United States, 1890-1938

Laura L. Lovett (Autor)

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2009
248 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-6810-2 (ISBN)

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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 Leases maternalist agenda, Florence Sherbons eugenic fitter families campaign, George Maxwells homecroft movement of land reclamation and home building, Theodore Roosevelts campaign for conservation and country life, and Edward Rosss 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, Lovetts study sheds light on the rhetoric of family values that has regained currency in recent years.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.11.2009
• Reihe/Serie: Gender and American Culture
• Reihe/Serie: Gender and American Culture
• Zusatzinfo: 7 illus., notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Agrarianism • agrarian tradition • American Eugenics Society • Baby Boom • coercive reproduction practices • conservation • Country Life • Edith Wood • Edward Ross • Elsworth Huntington • Eugenics • Family • Fitter Families • Florence Sherbon • George Maxwell • Gifford Pinchot • Homecroft • Irrigation • Irving Fisher • Kansas • Mary Elisabeth Lease • Motherhood • Population • Populism • positive eugenics • progressivism • Pronatalism • Race • Racism • Reclamation • Reform • Reproduction • reproductive conformity • scientific racism • suburbs • Suicide • Theodore Roosevelt • typical family • welfare
• ISBN-10: 0-8078-6810-8 / 0807868108
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-6810-2 / 9780807868102