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The majority of this chapter talked about the arguments for and against birth control. It was interesting to read about all the different reasons why people were for or against it. Also, the main sources used to promote birth control were written by John Humphrey Noyes of the Oneidas. I'm not sure how representative that is of the 19th century views for birth control because the Oneidas did not have the biggest following and had very controversial ideas of "complex marriages". -- Kari W. | The majority of this chapter talked about the arguments for and against birth control. It was interesting to read about all the different reasons why people were for or against it. Also, the main sources used to promote birth control were written by John Humphrey Noyes of the Oneidas. I'm not sure how representative that is of the 19th century views for birth control because the Oneidas did not have the biggest following and had very controversial ideas of "complex marriages". -- Kari W. | ||
| + | I felt this chapter talked a lot about over crowding and over population. When I was reading it I was wondering, was the discussion of sterilization, restraint and birth control really aimed at middle to upper class families? Walters has successfully separated the content from the context in this book, but there were other reasons for population increases. Take immigration, for example. "Excessive child-breaing" was not the only reason the population grew. Perhaps the authors were referring to other classes and people, whose children were less desirable members of society. So what does that mean about who might read these? Did immigrants buy into this stuff? Or were these arguments just code for trying to clean up society?--Amanda | ||
== Perfecting The Race == | == Perfecting The Race == | ||
