Paradise Found or Where the Sex Problem has been solved (A Story from South America)
| Title | Paradise Found or Where the Sex Problem has been solved (A Story from South America) |
| Year for Search | 1936 |
| Authors | Armstrong, C[harles] Wicksteed F.R.G.S.(1871-ca 1963) |
| Tertiary Authors | Armstrong, C. Wicksteed F.R.G.S. |
| Date Published | 1936 |
| Publisher | John Bale, Sons & Danielsson |
| Place Published | London |
| Keywords | English author, Male author |
| Annotation | A eutopia describing a eugenic colony in Brazil called Eugenia. Relatively few laws. The natural position of women is child-rearing and domestic labor while that of men is combat and work. Sexual freedom for the unmarried but self-control is stressed. Voluntary euthanasia. Defective children killed. The author had previously made a proposal for such a colony; see his “A Eugenic Colony: A Proposal for South America.” The Eugenics Review (London) 25.2 (n.s. 6.2) (July 1933): 91-97. See also 1892 Armstrong, The Yorl of the Northmen; his The Only Way: A Suggestion as to the True Solution to the Problems of Over-population, Degeneration, Unemployment and the Menace of War. London: Edgar G. Dunstan, [1921?]; and his The Survival of the Unfittest. London: C. W. Daniel Co., 1927. Rev. and enl. London: C. W. Daniel Co., 1931. |
| Holding Institutions | L, PSt |
| Author Note | English author (1871-ca 1963) who lived in Brazil from 1893-1923 where he founded and ran schools and then in Spain from 1923 to 1932, where he was headmaster of the English School in Barcelona, then in Brazil again from 1932 to 1938 and 1941 until his death. |
| Full Text | 1936 Armstrong, C[harles] Wicksteed, F.R.G.S. (1871-ca 1963). Paradise Found or Where the Sex Problem has been solved (A Story from South America). London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson. L, PSt A eutopia describing a eugenic colony in Brazil called Eugenia. Relatively few laws. The natural position of women is child-rearing and domestic labor while that of men is combat and work. Sexual freedom for the unmarried but self-control is stressed. Voluntary euthanasia. Defective children killed. The author had previously made a proposal for such a colony; see his “A Eugenic Colony: A Proposal for South America.” The Eugenics Review (London) 25.2 (n.s. 6.2) (July 1933): 91-97. See also 1892 Armstrong, The Yorl of the Northmen; his The Only Way: A Suggestion as to the True Solution to the Problems of Over-population, Degeneration, Unemployment and the Menace of War. London: Edgar G. Dunstan, [1921?]; and his The Survival of the Unfittest. London: C. W. Daniel Co., 1927. Rev. and enl. London: C. W. Daniel Co., 1931. English author who lived in Brazil from 1893-1923 where he founded and ran schools and then in Spain from 1923 to 1932, where he was headmaster of the English School in Barcelona, then in Brazil again from 1932 to 1938 and 1941 until his death. |
