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
Table of 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.

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