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