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Autore |
Lovett Laura L |
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Titolo |
Conceiving the future [[electronic resource] ] : pronatalism, reproduction, and the family in the United States, 1890-1938 / / Laura L. Lovett |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2007 |
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ISBN |
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1-4696-0472-8 |
0-8078-6810-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (249 p.) |
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Collana |
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Gender and American culture |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Families - United States - History - 20th century |
Families size - United States - History - 20th century |
Families policy - United States - History - 20th century |
Eugenics - United States - History - 20th century |
Nostalgia - United States - History - 20th century |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-228) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Nostalgia, modernism, and the family ideal -- New occasions teach new duties : Mary Elizabeth Lease's maternalist agenda -- Reclaiming the home : George H. Maxwell and the homecroft movement -- The political economy of sex : Edward A. Ross and race suicide -- Men as trees walking : Theodore Roosevelt and the conservation of the race -- Fitter families for future firesides : Florence Sherbon and popular eugenics -- American pronatalism. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Through nostalgic idealizations of motherhood, family, and the home, influential leaders in early twentieth-century America constructed and legitimated a range of reforms that promoted human reproduction. Their pronatalism emerged from a modernist conviction that reproduction and population could be regulated. European countries sought to regulate or encourage reproduction through legislation; America, by contrast, fostered ideological and cultural ideas of pronatalism through what Laura Lovett calls ""nostalgic modernism,"" which romanticized agrarianism and promoted scientific racism and |
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