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DESCRIPTION:Thursday 9 October at 2.00pm\nSpeaker: Associate Professor Miriam Bankovsky\nSubject: The Economics of Birth Control, Poverty, and Race in Twentieth Century America: From Eugenics to the War on Poverty\nFocussing on the economic approach to birth control in twentieth century America, Professor Bankovsky will discuss the eugenic sterilization programs of the Progressive Era poverty mitigation policies of the 1920s and 1930s, preoccupation with the intersection of race relations and economic progress across the 1940s, and the support of reproductive rights as poverty-alleviating civil rights during the War on Poverty in the 1960s. She will reflect that while birth control clinics can be studied by economists for their positive effects on human capital, productivity, living standards, and life-chances for marginalised women, this history also suggests that birth control must be studied as an oppressive tool of social controL.\n$60.00 for optional one course lunch with wine \n
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