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Teaching Responsible Reproduction : = Eugenics and Sex Education in the United States from the Progressive Era through World War II.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Teaching Responsible Reproduction :/
Reminder of title:	Eugenics and Sex Education in the United States from the Progressive Era through World War II.
Author:	Haager, Julia B.
Description:	1 online resource (352 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-02, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-02B.
Subject:	Education history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=29252195click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798834063575

Teaching Responsible Reproduction : = Eugenics and Sex Education in the United States from the Progressive Era through World War II.
Haager, Julia B.

Teaching Responsible Reproduction :Eugenics and Sex Education in the United States from the Progressive Era through World War II. - 1 online resource (352 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-02, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, 2022.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation explores how eugenic ideas became so deeply ingrained in public school sex education. The public schools began implementing sex education coursework in indirect ways in the 1910s; from Progressive Era reform organization lectures and study groups to teacher training programs, a wide range of individuals, ideas, and plans for sex education coursework emerged. By the 1920s eugenicists and eugenic ideas dominated the now-established sex education scene. Eugenicists offered prepackaged lectures and conferences in addition to well-crafted and age-appropriate literature, textbooks, and curricular materials for young people and adults. Eugenic ideas about reproduction both as responsible for and the solution to social problems flourished in discussions about sex education in the 1920s. During the Great Depression and World War II (WWII), family instability and increasing rates of migration and disease shifted the focus of sex education curricula from preventing unfit reproduction toward preventing divorce and promoting marriage. Eugenicists, in response, repackaged their expertise in terms of marriage and family life by subsequently reframing sex education as preparation for marriage and parenthood through "choice of mate." This not only couched marriage as a reproductive decision with hereditary implications, but it also recast eugenics as an ethically neutral topic separate from potentially controversial topics like gender, sexuality, race, politics, and religion.This dissertation shows how what we might call the softer, less compulsive side of eugenic ideology affected young people in ways that historians have not considered. Focusing on what we might consider a less restrictive portion of the eugenics movement-a side that sought to teach and sway through ideas, logic, and language rather than control or coerce with legislation, violence, and physical force-can help us better understand why harsher eugenic measures like legal, forced, and coerced sterilization lingered into the 1970s and 1980s. It also allows us to better grasp contemporary debates about public school sex education, which have been largely (and perhaps excessively) consumed by arguments about abstinence, parental-rights, sexuality, and gender, rather than equally concerning and contentious topics like reproductive rights and justice, citizenship, and medical bioethics.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798834063575Subjects--Topical Terms:

3171959
Education history.
Subjects--Index Terms:

EducationIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

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