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more about #eugenics rixatrix: It seems like looking at marriage practices from times past is always strange (this book is a little more than strange...). Love is love, sex is sex... more » Vulcan Has No Moon: The notion wives should be a 'useless ornament' actually dates back to the Victorian Era. It was considered a status symbol to have a wife that had no... more » thesciencegirl wields the truth like a mighty axe.: That eugenics chart just made me gasp out loud. The scientist in me is laughing uproariously at the idea that skin color is a single gene trait. The... more » girlwithoutahero: I have this!!!! It is the shit. It endorses eugenics. #whenyoumarry more » Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny.: OK, deep breath because I am going to admit something I have only admitted to one other person. I've been married to my husband for 10+ years and so... more » TransFat: I think that graph looks like a dinosaur and consequently feel like this view gives the graph more creedence (maybe it's because I was weaned later). ... more » SarahMC: If there is one thing I have always associated with the working class it's having fewer troubles than the middle class. more » Lizard in the Wires - Please, call it hamburger time.: I did a lot of found footage work with Duvall-Hill film strips (there's at least one that goes along with this curriculum). I have a weird fascinatio... more » curiousgeorgiana: I love how the "working class" is grayed out while "middle class" is in bold. Very subtle... #whenyoumarry more » SarahHeartburn: Okay, a true story that maybe was told to me as a parable: My granny, when she was very old and knew she didn't have much time left - I was about 6 -... more » 1.1.1.: Her thoughts on human development were also laden with racism: "It is said that a fish as large as a man has a brain no larger than the kernel of an ... more » Hana Maru, used up old slutbag on the pole: She's my hero more » Misiula: The overuse of the term "Nazi" in the U.S. makes me really think that the European conception of freedom of speech is more effective in terms of preve... more » sheistolerable: There are buildings at Harvard named after leading eugenicists who taught there or donated (Louis Agassiz, I'm looking at you.) It was indeed an endem... more » colormeroutine: "Eugenics" was as broad and varied a movement as "feminism", and because the supporters of the worst aspects of this movement tended to be the most vo... more » BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit): A Republican Congressman misrepresenting a feminist's work? That's just crazy talk. more » Sunflowercat: My only problem with the entire statement is the idea that there will never be a woman without means who cannot get an abortion anymore. What do you m... more » geekgirlliz: So perhaps what we need to work on first is destroying the systems of inequality that prevent people in poverty from having the same reproductive and ... more » mamacrass: I have had this argument a few times with my conservative friends, and I always point at the book by Martin Luther "The Jews and Their Lies" which was... more » librariesare4lovers: I'm a little confused as to the idea that PP "pushes people to have more abortions". It was my understanding that they don't push people to abort they... more » -
#oldiesbutgoodies
"It Is Not Uncommon For One Or Both Parties To Experience Guilt Or Revulsion."
That's during marital intimacy. Oh, and the fun doesn't stop there! We haven't even started on the "social class differences" you should be aware of When You Marry. [Contexts] -
#betweenthelines
The Margaret Sanger Papers Project
Via Feminist Law Professors, Academics at NYU have been working on an archive of the work of Margaret Sanger, the early 20th century birth control advocate, and responding to New Jersey Republican Congressman Christopher Smith's misrepresentations of her work. More » -
#roevsworld
Justice Ginsburg, Eugenics, & Feminist Criticism of Planned Parenthood
As part of her Times interview, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made some brief remarks about the Hyde Amendment and whether criticisms of the reproductive rights movement's flirtation with economic eugenics would prove true. Those have, naturally, been misinterpreted.
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