Building a better race [[electronic resource] ] : gender, sexuality, and eugenics from the turn of the century to the baby boom / / Wendy Kline

• Autore: Kline Wendy <1968->
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (236 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.9/2
• Soggetto topico: Eugenics - United States - History
• Soggetto geografico: United States Moral conditions
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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.: 9910455463303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II