Reproduce or Perish? The Artefact of the Fertility Concept and the French School of Demography

2011/01/01 by Sandrine Bertaux, Bertaux, Sandrine
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #19. Jahrhundert #20. Jahrhundert #Bevölkerungsentwicklung #Bevölkerungspolitik #Bevölkerungsverluste #Demographie #Einwanderung #Erster Weltkrieg #Familienplanung #Faschismus #First World War #France #Frankreich #Frau #French Historical and Cultural Studies #Fruchtbarkeit #Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes #Konzeption #Malthus #Nationalsozialismus #Nazism #Rassismus #Social Policies and Family #T. #Wissenschaft #World War II #Zweiter Weltkrieg #conception #demography #family planning #fascism #fertility #historical analysis #historische Analyse #immigration #nineteenth century #population decrease #population development #population policy #racism #science #twentieth century #woman

paper · pdf · doi:10.12759/hsr.36.2011.2.120-139

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Abstract

This article investigates the complicated and intertwined history between the scientific discipline of demography, the depopulation debate and the pronatalist lobby, and French republican policies from the late nineteenth century till the eve of the Second World War. The authoress suggests that central to this history is the concept and codification of fertility.

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