Catholicism, Race and Empire - Eugenics in Portugal, 1900-1950

Informationen zum Autor Richard Cleminson is Reader in the History of Sexuality, at the University of Leeds. His previous books include Anarchism, Science and Sex: Eugenics in Eastern Spain, 1900-1937 (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2000) and Sex, Identity and Hermaphrodites in Iberia, 1500-1800 (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013), co-authored with Francisco Vázquez García. Klappentext This monograph discusses Portuguese eugenics within a strong international historiographical comparative framework and situates it within different regional, scientific and ideological types of eugenics in the same period. The author argues about three factors that curtailed the development of eugenics in Portugal: the low level of institutionaliza Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Chapter One Introduction Chapter Two The Birth of Eugenics in Portugal: Early Debates and the Social and Scientific Context! 1900-1933 Chapter Three Between Consolidation and Institutionalisation: Eugenics! Catholic Opposition and the Salazar Regime! 1926-1933 Chapter Four Apogee and Decline: From the Establishment of the Eugenics Society to Dissolution into the Centre for Demographic Studies! 1934-1960 Chapter Five 'Race'! Eugenics and Miscegenation in the Portuguese Metropoleand 'Overseas Territories' Chapter Six Conclusion

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• Authors: Richard Cleminson, Richard (Reader in the History of Sexua Cleminson, Richard (Reader in the History of Sexuality Cleminson, Richard Cleminson
• Publisher: Central european university pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2014
• EAN: 9789633860281
• ISBN: 978-963-386-028-1
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine; CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology