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050	0	4	_aHQ766 _b.B578 2020
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aWilde, Melissa J., _d1974- _e1
245	1	0	_aBirth control battles _bhow race and class divided American religion _cMelissa J. Wilde
260			_aOakland, California _bUniversity of California Press _c2020.
300			_a1 online resource (xii, 285 pages) _billustrations, map
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
504			_a1 and index
505	0	0	_aAmerican religious activism in the twentieth century -- _tMobilizing America's religious elite in the service of eugenics -- _tThe early liberalizers : "the church has a responsibility for the improvement of the human stock" -- _tThe supporters : "God needed the white Anglo-Saxon race" -- _tThe critics : "Atlanta does not believe in race suicide" -- _tThe silent groups : "let the Christian get away from heredity" -- _tThe religious promoters of contraception : remaining focused on other people's fertility -- _tThe forgotten half : America's reluctant contraception converts
520	0		_a"Conservative and progressive religious groups fiercely disagree about issues of sex and gender. But how did we get here? Sociologist Melissa J. Wilde shows us how today's modern divisions began in the 1930s in the earliest public battles over birth control and not for the reasons we might expect today. 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 fights over birth control were never about sex, women's rights, or privacy but were actually about race, class, and white supremacist concerns about undesirable fertility. Using census and archival data and more than 10,000 articles, statements, and sermons from religious and secular periodicals, Wilde chronicles the religious community's division on contraception. She takes us from the 1930s, when support for the eugenics movement saw birth control as an act of duty for less desirable groups, to the 1960s, when religious identities had crystalized to such an extent that most congregants had forgotten the roots of their stance on birth control. Charting the twists and turns of how reproductive politics were tied to complex views of race, immigration, and manifest destiny, Birth Control Battles shows the enduring importance of race and class for American religion as it rewrites our understandings of what it has meant to be progressive or conservative in America"--Provided by publisher
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650		0	_aBirth control _xReligious aspects _xHistory.
650		0	_aBirth control _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aSocial classes _zUnited States.
650		0	_aEugenics _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aRace relations _xReligious aspects.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2270615&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell