Essays about: "Yagmur Yilmaz"

Found 1 essay containing the words Yagmur Yilmaz.

  1. 1. Eugenics and bodily discipline in the Scandinavian welfare state: a genealogy of gendered othering

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Development Studies; Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Yagmur Yilmaz; [2019]
    Keywords : Scandinavian history; eugenics; gendered othering; eugenic sterilization; welfare state; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis is a genealogy of the gendered othering practices that emerged through and within the implementation of eugenic policies in the Scandinavian welfare states, namely Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Between the early 1930s and 1970s, tens of thousands of people were sterilized and institutionalized in Scandinavia for various purposes, and a vast majority of these people were “feebleminded,” “immoral,” “vagrant,” “antisocial” or “weak” women whose fertility constituted a threat to the quality of the “national stock. READ MORE