medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
I thought I'd get my two pennorth' in before the list owners stamp this one
out. Here in Britain, Marie Stopes, famous for her campaigns for
contraception, was also a strong eugenics campaigner. The link seems
inplicit in the phrase she use, and which is still with us; 'family
planning'.
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From: James Mills <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: [M-R] women's movt and eugenics
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
> To all interested,
>
> I worked in Teachers College Library at Columbia in the 1930's, and the
> first book on sex and marriage that I found was Hamilton's "Research on
> Marriage" which was done, if my memory serves me correctly, on a limited
> sample of 100 couples who were graduate students at Columbia.
>
> In the later 1930's, the Margaret Sanger Institute sponsored at least
three
> works on sex under the joint editorial supervision of Dickenson and Bream.
> These were "Thousand Marriages", the "Single Woman", and the "History of
> Contraceptives".
>
> Many years later the Kinsey reports made the headlines but I believe the
> pioneer work was Hamiliton's, followed closely by the Sanger Institute
> Series.
>
> I hope that this is of some value, Jim
>
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