LEADER 03885nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910782726603321 005 20230912155746.0 010 $a1-283-52998-X 010 $a9786613842435 010 $a0-7735-7304-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9780773573048 035 $a(CKB)1000000000713617 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000280073 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11912403 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000280073 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10268509 035 $a(PQKB)10526368 035 $a(CaPaEBR)407661 035 $a(CaBNvSL)slc00207821 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3331596 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10178245 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL384243 035 $a(OCoLC)923231369 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/jtkfw7 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/4/407661 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3331596 035 $a(DE-B1597)655891 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773573048 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3248770 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000713617 100 $a20050923d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGrowing a race$b[electronic resource] $eNellie L. McClung and the fiction of eugenic feminism /$fCecily Devereux 210 $aMontreal ;$aIthaca $cMcGill-Queen's University Press$dc2005 215 $aviii, 174 p 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7735-2937-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [159]-169) and index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tMcClung in the Third Wave Revisiting the "Legacy" -- $t"To Serve and Save the Race" McClung, Maternal Feminism, and the Principles of Eugenics -- $tChanging Perspectives of Maternal Feminism Reconsidering the "New Woman" and the "Mother of the Race" -- $t"Motherhood on the Eugenic Basis" How the Anti-Feminist Principles of Selective Breeding Became "One with the Woman Question" -- $tLocating McClung's Eugenic Feminism Didactic Fiction and Racial Education -- $tReading Maternalism in McClung's Fiction The Culture of Imperial Motherhood -- $t"Finger-Posts on the Way to Right Living" Mothering the Prairies -- $tPearlie Watson and Eugenic Instruction in the Watson Trilogy How to Be a Maternal Messiah of the New World -- $tEugenic Plots Feminist Work and the "Racial Poisons" -- $t"The Great White Plague" in the "Last Best West" Tuberculosis, Temperance, and Woman Suffrage in Purple Springs -- $t"In a Chinese Restaurant, Working at Night"Painted Fires, White Slavery, and the Protection of the Imperial Mother -- $tEugenic Feminism and "Indian Work" -- $tRe-Forming "Indianness" The Eugenic Politics of Assimilation -- $t"Called to [the] Mission" Interpellating First Nations and Métis Mothers in "Red and White1 and "Babette" -- $tEpilogue -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aCecily Devereux reconsiders the extent to which McClung's enduring legacy of crusading for women's rights is founded on the ideas of British eugenicists such as Francis Galton and Caleb Saleeby and implicated in the passage of eugenical legislation in Canada. In a critical study of Painted Fires, the Pearlie Watson books, and several short stories, Devereux attempts to understand McClung's fiction in terms of its engagement with a politics of "race" and nation and constructions of specifically "racial" impurities that many women saw themselves as uniquely able to "cure." 606 $aEugenics in literature 606 $aFeminism in literature 615 0$aEugenics in literature. 615 0$aFeminism in literature. 676 $a813/.52 700 $aDevereux$b Cecily Margaret$f1963-$01540061 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782726603321 996 $aGrowing a race$93791432 997 $aUNINA