1st Edition
Catholicism, Race and Empire Eugenics in Portugal, 1900-1950
By Richard Cleminson
Copyright 2014
304 Pages
by
Central European University Press
This monograph places the science and ideology of eugenics in early twentieth century Portugal in the context of manifestations in other countries in the same period. The author argues that three factors limited the impact of eugenics in Portugal: a low level of institutionalization, opposition from Catholics and the conservative nature of the Salazar regime. In Portugal the eugenic science and... Read more
Preface, Chapter 1 – Introduction Chapter 2 – The Birth of Eugenics in Portugal: Early Debates and the Social and Scientific Context, 1900–1927 Chapter 3 – Between Consolidation and Institutionalisation: Eugenics, Catholic Opposition and the Salazar Regime, 1927–1933 Chapter 4 – Apogee and Decline: From the Establishment of the Eugenics Society to Dissolution into the Centre for Demographic Studies, 1934–1960 Chapter 5 – ‘Race’, Eugenics and Miscegenation in the Portuguese Metropole and ‘Overseas Territories’ Chapter 6 – Conclusion, Bibliography, Appendix, Index
Biography
Richard Cleminson is Reader in the History of Sexuality, at the University of Leeds. His previous books include Anarchism, Science and Sex: Eugenics in Eastern Spain, 1900–1937 (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2000) and Sex, Identity and Hermaphrodites in Iberia, 1500-1800 (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013), co-authored with Francisco Vázquez García.
