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

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

Wendy Kline's lucid cultural history of eugenics in America emphasizes the movement's central, continuing interaction with popular notions of gender and morality. Kline shows how eugenics could seem a viable solution to problems of moral disorder and sexuality, especially female sexuality,...

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Main Author: Kline, Wendy, 1968-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001.
Subjects:
Eugenics > United States > History.
Social values.
Gender identity.
Women's rights.
African Americans.
Nuclear families.
Families.
People with mental disabilities.
Politics, Practical.
Mentally ill women.
Eugenics > history
Morals
Social Values
Nuclear Family
Gender Identity
Sexuality
Women's Rights
Black or African American
Family
Persons with Mental Disabilities
Mentally Ill Persons
Politics
Sterilization, Involuntary > legislation & jurisprudence
Sterilization, Reproductive > history
sex role.
African American.
mentally handicapped.
politics.
mentally ill.
United States > Moral conditions.
United States
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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Summary:Wendy Kline's lucid cultural history of eugenics in America emphasizes the movement's central, continuing interaction with popular notions of gender and morality. Kline shows how eugenics could seem a viable solution to problems of moral disorder and sexuality, especially female sexuality, during the first half of the twentieth century.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 218 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-207) and index.
ISBN:9780520939318
052093931X
9780520225022
0520225023
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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