Postmodernism: 1950-?
History:
- WW2: 1939-1945
- 1950s-1960s: States, like Texas, begin proposing laws against abortion
- 1973: Roe vs. Wade determined abortion legal under the Constitution
- African American fertility/ birth rates drop due to extreme sterilization (without consent)
- Sterilization for minorities only
What does this info say about PostModernism?
- Question everything about life (people are protesting more)
- The death of the objective truth; there are many realities for many people in the country
- Power is questioned, the government's "truth" is questioned (Nazis claimed their Eugenics were the same as the United States Eugenics)
- "Science" went too far
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1420666
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/unwanted-sterilization-and-eugenics-programs-in-the-united-states/
Sunday, May 19, 2019
Modernism: 1900-1945
History:
- 1909: CA began sterilizing men and woman
- Performed in prisons, without consent
- Apparently it was due to "anti-Asian and "Anti- Mexican" beliefs in CA and "anti-African" beliefs in the South
- In 1914, Harry Laughlin wrote a law stating, that people who needed to be sterilized were the, "...feebleminded, insane, criminalistic, epileptic, inebriate, diseased, blind, deaf; deformed; and dependent" - including "orphans, ne'er-do-wells, tramps, and the homeless and paupers."
- They saw these people as "deficient
- The US sterilized at least 60,000 people
The Nazis BORROWED this idea from AMERICANS in 1933 and they sterilized 350,000 people
What does this info say about Modernism?
- American dream is shot and killed during this era
- Optimism/ hope for the future (then WW2...)
- Independence of the individual made the white man shake in their boots
- Distrust of the government, which is not surprising considering the gov conspired to sterilize any and all minorities for a 'better' race
- Disillusionment and desire for progress which also led to self-reliance as a coping mechanism
http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/html/eugenics/essay8text.html https://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/who-we-are/our-history
History:
- 1909: CA began sterilizing men and woman
- Performed in prisons, without consent
- Apparently it was due to "anti-Asian and "Anti- Mexican" beliefs in CA and "anti-African" beliefs in the South
- In 1914, Harry Laughlin wrote a law stating, that people who needed to be sterilized were the, "...feebleminded, insane, criminalistic, epileptic, inebriate, diseased, blind, deaf; deformed; and dependent" - including "orphans, ne'er-do-wells, tramps, and the homeless and paupers."
- They saw these people as "deficient
- The US sterilized at least 60,000 people
The Nazis BORROWED this idea from AMERICANS in 1933 and they sterilized 350,000 people
What does this info say about Modernism?
- American dream is shot and killed during this era
- Optimism/ hope for the future (then WW2...)
- Independence of the individual made the white man shake in their boots
- Distrust of the government, which is not surprising considering the gov conspired to sterilize any and all minorities for a 'better' race
- Disillusionment and desire for progress which also led to self-reliance as a coping mechanism
http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/html/eugenics/essay8text.html https://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/who-we-are/our-history
Realism: 1865-1910
History:
- Civil War 1861-1865
- End of slavery, beginning of Jim Crow laws
- Economic boost in the North and West, not South
- During this time there was a call for criminalization of abortion, but nothing happened yet
- Data for African families birth rates were nonexistent prior to the civil war (who knows how many "miscarriages"/abortions occurred prior)
- White families were becoming more industrial (having kids was expensive, they go to college)
- Black families were becoming more rural (needed more kids to help farm)
Abortions at the time were performed in unsanitary and unsafe environments
What does this info say about Realism?
- Tell it like it is, minorities begin publishing
- Act of resistance, minorities telling their stories (women talking about men, African Americans talking about slavery)
- In, "Yellow Wallpaper," we know she was a mother, and that, in her perspective, her husband was not treating her very well (proof of women's treatment at the time?)
- "Wife of His Youth," has themes of stereotyping, segregation, and identity (all things they have been having to deal with can now be talked about)
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/brief-overview-american-civil-war
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_abortion
History:
- Civil War 1861-1865
- End of slavery, beginning of Jim Crow laws
- Economic boost in the North and West, not South
- During this time there was a call for criminalization of abortion, but nothing happened yet
- Data for African families birth rates were nonexistent prior to the civil war (who knows how many "miscarriages"/abortions occurred prior)
- White families were becoming more industrial (having kids was expensive, they go to college)
- Black families were becoming more rural (needed more kids to help farm)
Abortions at the time were performed in unsanitary and unsafe environments
What does this info say about Realism?
- Tell it like it is, minorities begin publishing
- Act of resistance, minorities telling their stories (women talking about men, African Americans talking about slavery)
- In, "Yellow Wallpaper," we know she was a mother, and that, in her perspective, her husband was not treating her very well (proof of women's treatment at the time?)
- "Wife of His Youth," has themes of stereotyping, segregation, and identity (all things they have been having to deal with can now be talked about)
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/brief-overview-american-civil-war
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_abortion
America: Land for the White, Land for the Man
Treatment of women in America has always been poor, but it started somewhere:
- Eugenics and the treatment of minorities, especially in the prison system
- Eugenics: the science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics
- Birth control was outlawed, abortions unsafe
What does this have to do with this class?
- All this stuff is occurring during the realism, modernism, and postmodernism periods
- How did it effect each era? What does the style of writing at the time say about all that was going on? Let's give more info...
Treatment of women in America has always been poor, but it started somewhere:
- Eugenics and the treatment of minorities, especially in the prison system
- Eugenics: the science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics
- Birth control was outlawed, abortions unsafe
What does this have to do with this class?
- All this stuff is occurring during the realism, modernism, and postmodernism periods
- How did it effect each era? What does the style of writing at the time say about all that was going on? Let's give more info...
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