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Sterilization and the British Conservative party: rethinking the failure of the Eugenics Society's political strategy in the nineteen-thirties
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posted on 2023-07-26, 13:40 authored by Bradley W. Hart, Richard CarrThis article argues for a revised view of the British eugenic sterilization campaign, proposing that a failure to maximize the contemporary political terrain significantly contributed to its lack of legislative success. The Eugenics Society's unwillingness to alienate Labour or overtly to link sterilization to concerns articulated by Conservative M.P.s rendered it somewhat rudderless when, actually, it could have been attached to broader concerns (including the economic depression). While there were key elements arguing for a more aggressively pro-Tory stance, the fact that the strongest advocate of this course, George Pitt-Rivers, was so sympathetic to Nazi Germany undermined this strategy's chances.
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88Issue number
242Page range
716-739Publication title
Historical ResearchISSN
1468-2281External DOI
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WileyLanguage
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2015-10-22Legacy Faculty/School/Department
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