Hygiene of reproduction, maternal culture and sexual differentiation. Eugenics in Argentina and Spain during the interwar period.
This work analyses the ideas about maternity and female education deriving from different eugenic proposals developed in Argentina and Spain during a period of intense international debate on the implications of voluntary birth control for the future of the race and nations. In an age in which state...
| Published in: | Journal of Iberian & Latin American Studies Vol. 29; no. 1; pp. 65 - 90 |
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Apr2023
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