Demon Mothers in the Social Laboratory

Question 1

PR and the 3rd world as a problem

Answer 1

the 3rd world’s poverty concerned the USA only because they worried that due to the stress they might ‘go over’ to the soviets

Question 2

The Concept of the Cold War

Answer 2

social science in the usa rendered poverty and communism as the same thing

Question 3

Women and their reproductive cycle

Answer 3

women looked at by researchers as perfect for new endocrinological and other high tech approaches to curb fertility and hence population and poverty

Question 4

Rexford Tugwell and the New Deal

Answer 4

Red Rex, governor, instituted NEW DEAL land reform, state operated farms and industry, development, state reorganization.

Question 5

Munoz Marin and the new deal

Answer 5

First elected gov ‘49, helped develop commonwealth/free associated state in PR, self rule, yet under US military presence. offered companies tax breaks through operation bootstrap

Question 6

The new political and economic policies and mass migration

Answer 6

Employment among women increases 21%, men drop from 80 to 60 percent from 1950-75. cause mass exodus of men (cheap airfare, unemployment (mostly rural) and increased connection to mainland)

Question 7

Overpopulation and the Malthussian argument 115-116

Answer 7

Population explosion argument that lack of food for the people, not taking into consideration the increased production. Race suicide. too many of “them”

Question 8

Operation bootstrap and democratic development

Answer 8

the program came to stand for successful, technology based social and economic change. develop PR in 4 parts: political, economic, fusion of latin and north america cultures on island, overpopulation and birth

Question 9

Women and the culture of poverty

Answer 9

large families attributed to the backwardness of women. victimization or demonization. poverty renders women’s behavior pathological and irrational.

Question 10

Women as an obstacle for birth control p120

Answer 10

PR’s capitalist route of poverty. Employed middle class women to sell birth control through education, cajoling and pressuring women for BC and sterilization

Question 11

eugenics in the US and PR

Answer 11

Sterilized ‘mental defectives’ and unwanted traits.

Question 12

The development of the pill p129-130

Answer 12

Urine of Mares used initially. Then yams. Searl, Parke-Davis, Pfiser

Question 13

Partido Popular Democratico leader and slogan

Answer 13

Munoz Marin “Bread, Land, Liberty”