Building a better race : gender, sexuality, and eugenics from the turn of the century to the baby boom / / Wendy Kline
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| Autore: |
Kline Wendy <1968->
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| Titolo: |
Building a better race : gender, sexuality, and eugenics from the turn of the century to the baby boom / / Wendy Kline
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2001 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (236 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 363.9/2 |
| Soggetto topico: | Eugenics - United States - History |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Moral conditions |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-207) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. Motherhood, Morality, and the "Moron": The Emergence of Eugenics in America; 2. From Segregation to Sterilization: Changing Approaches to the Problem of Female Sexuality; 3. "Sterilization without Unsexing": Eugenics and the Politics of Reproduction; 4. A New Deal for the Child: Ann Cooper Hewitt and Sterilization in the 1930's; 5. "Marriage Is Not Complete without Children": Positive Eugenics, 1930-1960; Epilogue: Building a Better Family; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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, during the first half of the twentieth century. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Building a better race |
| ISBN: | 0-520-93931-X |
| 1-59734-514-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910812695503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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