Die Bedeutung der tschechischen Geschichte

Author/Contributor(s):	Masaryk, T G
Publisher:	University of North Carolina Press
Date:	09/01/2012
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Through nostalgic idealizations of motherhood, family, and the home, argues Laura Lovett, 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 Lovett terms "nostalgic modernism," which romanticized agrarianism and promoted scientific racism and eugenics.