Radiant Motherhood

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Radiant Motherhood is a 1920 book by Marie Stopes that promotes birth control and eugenic ideas about selective parenthood and maternal responsibility.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
advocatesFor birth control for certain groups
selective parenthood
associatedWithMovement birth control movement
eugenics movement
author Marie Stopes NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
ethicalStance supports coercive or restrictive reproductive policies
genre birth control literature
eugenics literature
social philosophy
hasAuthorialView motherhood as a duty to the race
mothers should consider genetic quality of offspring
hasPerspective pronatalist toward the "fit"
restrictive toward the "unfit"
hasReception considered historically important in birth control debates
criticized for its eugenic ideology
historicalContext early 20th-century eugenics discourse
interwar period
influencedBy contemporary eugenic theories
early 20th-century population anxieties
language English
mainSubject birth control
eugenics
maternal responsibility
motherhood
parenthood
population control
reproductive rights
notableFor controversial views on who should reproduce
linking birth control to eugenic goals
promotesIdea differential reproduction based on perceived fitness
eugenic selection of parents
publicationYear 1920
relatedWorkByAuthor Married Love NERFINISHED
Wise Parenthood NERFINISHED
targetAudience married women
prospective parents

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Marie Stopes notableWork Radiant Motherhood