Conceiving the future [[electronic resource] ] : pronatalism, reproduction, and the family in the United States, 1890-1938 / / Laura L. Lovett
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Lovett Laura L
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Conceiving the future [[electronic resource] ] : pronatalism, reproduction, and the family in the United States, 1890-1938 / / Laura L. Lovett
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| Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (249 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.850973/0904 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-228) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 eug |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Conceiving the future |
| ISBN: | 1-4696-0472-8 |
| 0-8078-6810-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910456367003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Gender & American culture.