Revista Seleções do Reader's Digest e as campanhas de controle demográfico no interior da guerra fria

The 1960s and 1970s witnessed a growing concern with the prospects of a population boom. Catering to a wide readership, the Reader's Digest magazine adopted and spread a pessimistic discourse favoring population control that linked the threat of overpopulation to the communist expansion. The pu...

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Autor: Farias Raad, Lenita Jacira
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2004
País:Brasil
Recursos:Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)
Repositorio:Esboços (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:periodicos.ufsc.br:article/478
Acesso em linha:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/esbocos/article/view/478
Access Level:acceso abierto
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Resumo:The 1960s and 1970s witnessed a growing concern with the prospects of a population boom. Catering to a wide readership, the Reader's Digest magazine adopted and spread a pessimistic discourse favoring population control that linked the threat of overpopulation to the communist expansion. The purpouse of this article is to analize the magazine's engagement in this campaing for the population control.