Essays about: "eugenics"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 essays containing the word eugenics.
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1. Archives For Black Trans Living, A Practice For Possibilities.
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Centrum för genusvetenskapAbstract : This thesis investigates possibilities for developing an archiving praxis to help Black trans people live. Inspired by recent Black trans thinking and creativity, the research here centres conversations with five Experts working in a range of academic, artistic, and activist archiving practices. READ MORE
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2. “We Were Called Low-Grades” : Current Archival Approaches to the Digitization and Dissemination of Eugenics Collections
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för ABMAbstract : This thesis examines the current methodological approaches to digital access and dissemination of eugenics archives. It looks in-depth at four institutions from around the world which provide some means of digital access to a specific eugenics collection that they control: the Wellcome Collection within the Wellcome Library in London, the Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement founded in part by the Cold Springs Laboratory in New York, the Canadian Eugenics Archive, and the State Institute for Race Biology at the Uppsala University Library Special Collections in Sweden. READ MORE
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3. CRISPR AND THETREATMENT/EN DISTINCTION : On Vagueness, Borderline Cases and Germline Genome Editing
University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudierAbstract : In this thesis, I argue that the treatment/enhancement distinction that is central to the ethical debate concerning germline genome editing and CRISPR is too vague to be ethically and normatively guiding. The problem of vagueness is twofold, being both a semantic and epistemic issue. READ MORE
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4. Deconstructing the “Low Other” in the First Wave of Sex Hygiene Films (1914-1919)
University essay from Stockholms universitet/FilmvetenskapAbstract : The present thesis investigates the commercial sex hygiene films produced between the years 1914 and 1919 in the United States, during the last years of the Progressive Era. Rejected and prohibited as soon as five years after their apparition, the sex hygiene films’ position within the industry, as well as the cinematic techniques they incorporated, will be analysed through the concept of the Low Other. READ MORE
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5. 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 SchoolAbstract : 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
