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Birth Control Battles: How Race and Class Divided American Religion

Melissa J. Wilde

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Description:Conservative and progressive religious groups soundly land on different sides of the sex and gender debate. But how did we get here? Sociologist Melissa Wilde exposes how our current reproductive politics actually stem from the 1930s—specifically the battle over birth control. By examining thirty of America’s most prominent religious groups—including Mormons, Methodists, Southern Baptists, Seventh Day Adventists, Quakers, Jews, and more—Wilde contends that birth control was never about sex, women’s rights, or privacy but actually about race, class, and white supremacist concerns about undesirable fertility. Using census data and archival data of more than 100,000 articles, statements, sermons, and treatises from secular and religious periodicals, Wilde chronicles the religious community’s division on contraception—from the 1930s where support for the eugenics movement saw birth control as an act of duty for less desirable groups, to the 1960s where religious identities as progressive or conservative crystalized that they had forgotten the roots of their stance on birth control. Charting the twists and turns of how reproductive politics is tied to complex views of capitalism and manifest destiny, Birth Control Battles contributes to the ever-widening realization that race and class—and not reproductive rights alone—continues to be at the heart of religious groups’ fervor for and against birth control.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Birth Control Battles: How Race and Class Divided American Religion. To get started finding Birth Control Battles: How Race and Class Divided American Religion, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Conservative and progressive religious groups soundly land on different sides of the sex and gender debate. But how did we get here? Sociologist Melissa Wilde exposes how our current reproductive politics actually stem from the 1930s—specifically the battle over birth control. By examining thirty of America’s most prominent religious groups—including Mormons, Methodists, Southern Baptists, Seventh Day Adventists, Quakers, Jews, and more—Wilde contends that birth control was never about sex, women’s rights, or privacy but actually about race, class, and white supremacist concerns about undesirable fertility. Using census data and archival data of more than 100,000 articles, statements, sermons, and treatises from secular and religious periodicals, Wilde chronicles the religious community’s division on contraception—from the 1930s where support for the eugenics movement saw birth control as an act of duty for less desirable groups, to the 1960s where religious identities as progressive or conservative crystalized that they had forgotten the roots of their stance on birth control. Charting the twists and turns of how reproductive politics is tied to complex views of capitalism and manifest destiny, Birth Control Battles contributes to the ever-widening realization that race and class—and not reproductive rights alone—continues to be at the heart of religious groups’ fervor for and against birth control.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Birth Control Battles: How Race and Class Divided American Religion. To get started finding Birth Control Battles: How Race and Class Divided American Religion, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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