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Birth Control Battles - How Race and Class Divided American Religion (Hardcover)
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Birth Control Battles - How Race and Class Divided American Religion (Hardcover)
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Conservative and progressive religious groups fiercely disagree
about issues of sex and gender. But how did we get here? Melissa J.
Wilde shows how today's modern divisions began in the 1930s in the
public battles over birth control and not for the reasons we might
expect. By examining thirty of America's most prominent religious
groups-from Mormons to Methodists, Southern Baptists to Seventh Day
Adventists, and many others-Wilde contends that fights over birth
control had little do with sex, women's rights, or privacy. Using a
veritable treasure trove of data, including census and archival
materials and more than 10,000 articles, statements, and sermons
from religious and secular periodicals, Wilde demonstrates that the
push to liberalize positions on contraception was tied to complex
views of race, immigration, and manifest destiny among America's
most prominent religious groups. Taking us from the Depression era,
when support for the eugenics movement saw birth control as an act
of duty for less desirable groups, to the 1960s, by which time most
groups had forgotten the reasons behind their stances on
contraception (but not the concerns driving them), Birth Control
Battles explains how reproductive politics divided American
religion. In doing so, this book shows the enduring importance of
race and class for American religion as it rewrites our
understanding of what it has meant to be progressive or
conservative in America.
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