This book sheds light on the history of Greek eugenics during the post-war period. At this time
eugenics had already been condemned by international declarations. Alexandra Barmpouti however
challenges the assumption that eugenics disappeared and confirms the continuity of eugenics
after the Second World War. She looks at the Greek paradigm because it included the
establishment of a eugenics society in 1953 and revealed the contact of Greek eugenicists with
renowned British and American birth control advocates. The book covers for the first time the
untold history of contraception in Greece during the 1950s and 1960s when the use of female
contraceptives was forbidden. It thus argues that birth control was ideologically based on
eugenics. In the same context the book discusses significant breakthroughs related to eugenics
such as the rise of the feminist movement and the advance of human genetics that took place
during this period.
