The Politics of Sterilization

Question 1

Women and the high sterilization

Answer 1

mainland feminists arributed to the apparatuses of social control: us military, federal government and corporate capitalism

Question 2

Eugenics and sterilization

Answer 2

Governor Blanton approves sterlization in 1937 based on principles of eugenics to breed the fit and weed out the unfit, namely the poor.

Question 3

Munoz Marin and the sterilization debate

Answer 3

PPD party worried about over population in public, but in private attuned to catholic church and condemned birth control of any kind. both and positions.

Question 4

The catholic church and birth control p150-151

Answer 4

Adamantly against, yet accidentally told women where to obtain sterilizations.

Question 5

Insular feminists and birth limitations

Answer 5

Used the rhetoric of overpopulation to promote their long standing goals of making safe and effective means of birth control available to women in PR.

Question 6

Women and availability of birth control

Answer 6

Significant involvement of women to make birth control and sterilization available. The “constrained choice” of women in need of save and reliable contraception and pressured to believe it was a moral and civic duty.