Popular eugenics [[electronic resource] ] : national efficiency and American mass culture in the 1930s / / edited by Susan Currell and Christina Cogdell

• Pubblicazione: Athens, Ohio, : Ohio University Press, c2006
• Descrizione fisica: x, 406 p
• Disciplina: 363.9/2097309043
• Soggetto topico: Eugenics - United States - History - 20th century; Eugenics - Social aspects - United States; Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century; Eugenics in literature; Eugenics in motion pictures; Culture in motion pictures
• Soggetto geografico: United States History 1919-1933; United States History 1933-1945
• Altri autori: CurrellSusan CogdellChristina
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction / Susan Currell -- A new deal for the child : Ann Cooper Hewitt and sterilization in the 1930s / Wendy Kline -- Eugenic decline and recovery in self-improvement literature of the thirties / Susan Currell -- "Drilling eugenics into people's minds" : expertise, public opinion, and biopolitics in Alexis Carrel's Man, the unknown / Andrés H. Reggiani -- "Explaining sexual life to your daughter" : gender and eugenic education in the United States during the 1930s / Michael A. Rembis -- Defending Jeeter : conservative arguments against eugenics in the Depression era South / Betsy L. Nies -- Poor whites and the Federal Writers' Project : the rhetoric of eugenics in the southern life histories / Stephen Fender -- The descent of Yoknapatawpha : eugenics and the origins of Faulkner's world / Barbara E. Ladner -- The American Adonis : a natural history of the "average American" (man), 1921-32 / Mary K. Coffey -- Smooth flow : biological efficiency and streamline design / Christina Cogdell -- Apes, men, and teeth : Earnest A. Hooton and eugenic decay / Nicole Rafter -- Classical bodies versus the criminal carnival : eugenics ideology in 1930s popular art / Kerry Soper -- Scientific selection on the silver screen : madcap eugenics in College holiday / Karen A. Keely -- Monsters in the bed : the horror-film eugenics of Dracula and Frankenstein / Angela Marie Smith -- The Nazi eugenics exhibit in the United States, 1934-43 / Robert Rydell, Christina Cogdell, and Mark Largent.
• Titolo autorizzato: Popular eugenics
• ISBN: 0-8214-4206-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782089803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II