The Discourse of Disability

Shmidt, Victoria; Pančocha, Karel

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“…14 An important role was played by the fact that the birth rate in the Czech Lands was significantly lower than in the east of the country, in Slovakia and "Subcarpathian Russia", whose population, however, was largely considered degenerate in Czech professional circles. 15 Although these proposals were not translated into legal form, the discussion itself again provoked criticism from Catholic circles. The professor of theology at Charles University in Prague, Karel Kadlec, strongly condemned sterilization in the spirit of the encyclical Casti connubii.…”

Section: Positive Eugenics and National Revolutionmentioning

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“Quantity Itself Generates Quality”: Family Conceptions Between Catholicism, Nationalism, and Eugenics in Slovakia in the Late 1930s and Early 1940s

Szabó

2023

Journal of Family History

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This study deals with the intersections but also the unrelenting tension between the Catholic Church und politics and efforts to regulate society through eugenics in order to heal it in the context of the establishment of the Slovak state between 1938 and 1941, which was based on a specific conception of traditional family. In the first step, the discourse of the national revolution in the period of Slovak autonomy at the turn of 1938 and 1939 is analyzed, with emphasis on the requirement of “national health” through measures of so-called positive eugenics. Subsequently, the article examines the efforts to institutionalize this discourse in the context of the establishment of a museum of hygiene according to the German model. Finally, it outlines the impact of this context on the preparation and implementation of the anti-interruption law on “fetal protection” of 1941.

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Section: Positive Eugenics and National Revolutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Quantity Itself Generates Quality”: Family Conceptions Between Catholicism, Nationalism, and Eugenics in Slovakia in the Late 1930s and Early 1940s

Szabó

2023

Journal of Family History

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“…Nevertheless, both measures remained the core requirements of the movement to combat the spread of venereal diseases, the crisis in institutional care, and the growth of the population in the eastern Czechoslovak periphery. 18 The depopulation discussion also shifted the focus to the family as a natural reproducer of the nation and a means for ensuring its status and protection. The disintegration of family life, marriage crisis, an increasing proportion of single and two-child families, the advance of modern lifestyles, and women's emancipation were all issues that attracted the attention of experts as they searched for the causes of the fertility decline.…”

Section: The Demographic Contextmentioning

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“…The power of physicians' authority could not be a viable alternative to the moral obligations set out for women and men as prescribed by the Christianity." 32 Likewise, medical circles also expressed their doubts about marriage restrictions. As a Czech physician, Josef Pelnářconcluded in his article on eugenic restraint: "The future of the human race will, I think, continue to depend on the subconscious and unconscious components of the sexual search in men and the sexual lure in women, on instinctual choices that can be somehow regulated by intellectual and emotional culture but not replaced."…”

Section: The Demographic Contextmentioning

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Population Crisis in Interwar Czechoslovakia: Building up a Healthy Family

Jakobyová

2023

Journal of Family History

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A population problem represented by the declining birth rate came to the focus of experts’ and politicians’ attention in interwar Czechoslovakia. Significant activities concerning the decrease in quantity and alleged population quality were pursued within the broad spectrum of experts who questioned the nation's future. Drawing from the concept of biopolitics, this article demonstrates through the analysis of medical discourse how medical professionals and social workers together with counseling bureaux, foregrounded the idea of a healthy family, primarily inspired by a (pseudo)science of eugenics, in order to maintain appropriate quantitative and qualitative population development. This article aims to expand the body of knowledge on experts’ attitudes toward demographic trends in interwar Czechoslovakia and to draw attention to two types of counseling bureaux and their role in reproductive policy. While the idea of eugenic premarital bureaux was explicitly linked to the eugenic movement that aimed at discouraging the reproduction of people identified as inferior, the role of counseling bureaux for mothers and children regarding family planning and reproduction remains overshadowed by their mission of medico-social care for children.

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The Discourse of Disability

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“Quantity Itself Generates Quality”: Family Conceptions Between Catholicism, Nationalism, and Eugenics in Slovakia in the Late 1930s and Early 1940s

“Quantity Itself Generates Quality”: Family Conceptions Between Catholicism, Nationalism, and Eugenics in Slovakia in the Late 1930s and Early 1940s

Population Crisis in Interwar Czechoslovakia: Building up a Healthy Family

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