Author

Publication

2008 - Catholic University of America Press, Washington, D.C, District of Columbia

Language

English

Word Count

105,250 words, Guess

Page Count

421 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100813215307
  • ISBN-139780813215303
  • Goodreads5679097
  • Library of Congress Control Number2008001388
  • OCLC Control Number182738339
and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780813215303
  • Open LibraryOL16427208M

Classifications

  • DDC363.9/2
  • LCCHQ755.5.G7 F367 2008
  • LCCHQ755.5.G7F367 2008

Description

"Ann Farmer illuminates a dark corner of modern Western history in her new study of the English abortion campaign. This book aims to correct long-held assumptions that the abortion campaign was the product of feminism and concern about backstreet abortion, and argues instead that it was the fruit of the eugenics/population control movement. Associated with Nazi Germany, eugenics is a social philosophy that advocates the improvement of the human race through various forms of intervention. Farmer argues; despite their compassionate rhetoric, female abortion advocates were all eugenicists obsessed with controlling the quality and quantify of mankind. In addition to abortion, birth control, and sterilization, "solutions" included even the lethal chamber; abortion advocates worked closely with American and German eugenicists despite Nazi anti-Semitism."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Topics

HistoryEugenicsContraceptionBirth controlInduced AbortionBirth control, great britainEugenics -- Great Britain -- History

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Other Editions

  • By their fruits: eugenics, population control, and the abortion campaignCatholic University of America Press2008-01-01

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