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Autore: | Lovett Laura L |
Titolo: | Conceiving the future : pronatalism, reproduction, and the family in the United States, 1890-1938 / / Laura L. Lovett |
Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2007 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
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 | |
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: | 979-88-9313-133-8 |
1-4696-0472-8 | |
0-8078-6810-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910821936003321 |
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