EUGENICS, IMMIGRATION RESTRICTION AND THE BIRTH CONTROL MOVEMENTS(Chapt.- 16)

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2014-08

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John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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https://hdl.handle.net/2022/19003

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Agitation for eugenics, immigration restriction, and birth control were intertwined during the first decades of the twentieth century along with numerous other health issues. Campaigns for these causes led to public policies in an effort to improve the physical, mental and social health of the nation. However, these issues were not considered of historical interest until the post-World War II era. Eugenics and the leaders of the eugenics movement were often discredited by late twentieth-century historians as elitists or racists, while early immigration restriction laws and nativism gained renewed interest, and birth control and its early leaders such as Margaret Sanger were both eulogized and demonized. Contested interpretations of all three of these reform movements and their leaders have been found since the 1950s.

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This chapter is one of 29 essays that discusses how academics, then and now, have addressed the political, economic, diplomatic, cultural, ethnic, and social history of the presidents of the Republican Era of 1921-1933 - Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover. The eugenics, birth control and immigration restriction movements, discussed in this chapter, were intertwined. The complete book is available at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118834510
Other PUBLICATIONS and PAPERS on origins of drinking patterns and attitudes in western Europe from antiquity and the influence of the Roman Empire, its continued influence on modern society including American Prohibition and temperance cycles, alcohol control policies, attitudes and beverage preferences due to religion, climate, and European homeland can be found at the following IUScholarWorks links: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/17129/browse?type=title; https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/17132/browse?type=title; https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/17136/browse?type=title; http://hdl.handle.net/2022/17452; http://hdl.handle.net/2022/17143; http://hdl.handle.net/2022/17139; http://hdl.handle.net/2022/17145; http://hdl.handle.net/2022/17148; http://hdl.handle.net/2022/17149; http://hdl.handle.net/2022/17484; http://hdl.handle.net/2022/17485; http://hdl.handle.net/2022/17590

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Clean Living movements, birth control, eugenic sterilization, Margaret Sanger, immigration restriction, feminism, nativism, reproductive freedom, positive eugenics, Darwinism.

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Engs, Ruth Clifford (2014). EUGENICS, IMMIGRATION RESTRICTION AND THE BIRTH CONTROL MOVEMENTS. In: Katherine A.S. Sibley (ed.), A Companion to Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover. Wiley Online Library: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. This draft retrieved from IUSholarworks Repository: http://hdl.handle.net/2022/19003

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https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118834510.ch16

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This chapter appears in its final draft version as a part of "A Companion to Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover" published by Wiley in October 2014. This work is available in print or electronically on Wiley Online Library: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118834510

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Rights: This work is licensed for reuse under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license. For permission to reuse this work for commercial purposes, please contact Dr. Ruth Engs or the IU Archives.

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