03340nam 2200709 a 450 991045636700332120200520144314.01-4696-0472-80-8078-6810-8(CKB)2520000000007770(EBL)880274(OCoLC)793525333(SSID)ssj0000483484(PQKBManifestationID)11289813(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000483484(PQKBWorkID)10529498(PQKB)11423080(StDuBDS)EDZ0000246749(MiAaPQ)EBC880274(MdBmJHUP)muse28038(Au-PeEL)EBL880274(CaPaEBR)ebr10355373(CaONFJC)MIL929821(EXLCZ)99252000000000777020061012d2007 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrConceiving the future[electronic resource] pronatalism, reproduction, and the family in the United States, 1890-1938 /Laura L. LovettChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20071 online resource (249 p.)Gender and American cultureDescription based upon print version of record.0-8078-5803-X 0-8078-3107-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-228) and index.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.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 eugGender & American culture.FamiliesUnited StatesHistory20th centuryFamilies sizeUnited StatesHistory20th centuryFamilies policyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryEugenicsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryNostalgiaUnited StatesHistory20th centuryElectronic books.FamiliesHistoryFamilies sizeHistoryFamilies policyHistoryEugenicsHistoryNostalgiaHistory306.850973/0904Lovett Laura L1029327MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456367003321Conceiving the future2491627UNINA$77.1804/02/2016Dis