At the Heart of It All? : : Discourses on the Reproductive Rights of African American Women in the 20th Century / / Anne Overbeck.
The structure of the African American family has been a recurring theme in American discourse on the African American community. The role of African American mothers especially has been the cause of heated debates since the time of Reconstruction in the 19th century. The discourse, which often saw t...
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| Place / Publishing House: | München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Family Values and Social Change ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XV, 246 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. “After All, a Woman is Biologically a Child Factory” – Eugenics and the Debate on Family Planning for African Americans in the 1920s and Early 1930s
- 2. “Tomorrow’s Families” – Modernization Discourses and the Changing View on African American Women
- 3. “The Zero Population Growth Game” – Debating Black Motherhood in the Age of Population Control
- 4. “A National Effort [to Establish] a Stable Negro Family Structure” – Poverty, Illegitimacy, and Black Motherhood in the 1960s
- 5. In Sickness and in Health – Discussing Reproductive Rights in the Age of Crack, AIDS, and Women’s Health
- Conclusion and Outlook
- Bibliography
- Index