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Beyond birth control: Catholic responses to the eugenics movement in the United States, 1900--1950.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Beyond birth control: Catholic responses to the eugenics movement in the United States, 1900--1950./
Author:	Leon, Sharon Mara.
Description:	340 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-08, Section: A, page: 3027.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-08A.
Subject:	Religion, History of. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3142627
ISBN:	0496005227

Beyond birth control: Catholic responses to the eugenics movement in the United States, 1900--1950.
Leon, Sharon Mara.

Beyond birth control: Catholic responses to the eugenics movement in the United States, 1900--1950. - 340 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-08, Section: A, page: 3027.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2004.

At its heart, the eugenics movement was an attempt on the part of scientists and reformers to shape the American population by regulating the ability of particular persons to reproduce. This study explores how and why U.S. Roman Catholics provided the major voices of opposition to that movement during the first half of the twentieth century. Fundamentally, the conflict between Catholics and eugenicists was one of contradictory worldviews. Though the dispute between eugenicists and Catholics stemmed from a clash of different conceptions of society and community, those worldviews played out on the ground in practical terms as they fought over those particular policy initiatives, such as immigration restriction, birth control for the impoverished, anti-miscegenation legislation, involuntary sterilization for the "unfit," and health requirements for marriage certificates. On the one hand, advocates of the eugenics movement saw the science of heredity as providing the key to transforming American society by facilitating the elimination of "unfitness" and congenital disease, both physical and mental, and by fostering the growth of a vigorous and morally upright population. The eugenics social ideology promised progressive racial improvement that would culminate in fulfilling America's national destiny. On the other hand, Catholic social teaching envisioned a society in which individuals were invested with natural rights that took precedent over any commitment to progressive social development. Viewing the nuclear family as the basic social unit, Catholic teaching held that the state had no jurisdiction over the formation of families and that to deprive an individual of the right to reproduce was to violate a basic human right. This stance tapped into an extensive teaching on natural law that was based on scripture, tradition and human reason. Given the philosophical differences contained in these two worldviews, when eugenicists and Catholics talked about policy initiatives they discussed far more than science and religion; they discussed social relations, politics, culture, gender, race, and class. This dissertation challenges conventional scholarly understandings of the eugenics movement, nationalism, citizenship, and Catholic politics, while deepening our understanding of the adjustment of Catholicism to American conditions.

ISBN: 0496005227Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017471
Religion, History of.

Beyond birth control: Catholic responses to the eugenics movement in the United States, 1900--1950.
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