Heredity As Ideology: Ideas of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of The United States and Ontario on Heredity and Social Reform, 1880-1910.
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) of the United States and Ontario created in the 1880s departments of work dedicated to the study and care of heredity. This article examines the history of these departments and explores how the two organizations made differing use of the concept of heredity to support their particular agendas and methods for social reform. By exploring how heredity functioned as a malleable resource for the WCTU, this comparative case study also serves as an example of the cultural lives of scientific concepts.
Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto.
Riiko
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Bedford
D005260:Female; D040941:Heredity; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D009864:Ontario; D009938:Organizations; D012922:Social Change; D013695:Temperance / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States
American National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU); La branche provinciale ontarienne du WCTU; Le Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) américain; Ontario provincial WCTU; abstinence; heredity; hérédité; popularization of science; temperance; vulgarisation scientifique