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Building a better race : gender, sexuality, and eugenics from the turn of the century to the baby boom

Author: Wendy Kline
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Wendy Kline's lucid cultural history of eugenics in America emphasizes the movement's central, continuing interaction with notions of gender and morality. Demonstrating that eugenic ideas were far more powerful in public discourse than other historians have indicated, Kline shows how eugenics could have seemed a viable solution to problems of moral disorder and sexuality, especially female sexuality, during the  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Wendy Kline
ISBN: 0520225023 9780520225022
OCLC Number: 46321001
Description: xv, 218 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: List of illustrations --
Acknowledgments --
Introduction --
Motherhood, morality, and the moron : the emergence of eugenics in America --
From segregation to sterilization : Changing approaches to the problem of female sexuality --
Sterilization without unsexing : eugenics and the politics of reproduction --
New Deal for the child : Ann Cooper Hewitt and sterilization in the 1930s --
Marriage is not complete without children : positive eugenics, 1930-1960 --
Epilogue : Building a better family.
Responsibility: Wendy Kline.
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"Wendy Kline's lucid cultural history of eugenics in America emphasizes the movement's central, continuing interaction with notions of gender and morality. Demonstrating that eugenic ideas were far more powerful in public discourse than other historians have indicated, Kline shows how eugenics could have seemed a viable solution to problems of moral disorder and sexuality, especially female sexuality, during the first half of the twentieth century. Its appeal to social conscience and shared desires to strengthen the family and civilization sparked popular as well as scientific interest."--Jacket.

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