Building a better race : gender, sexuality, and eugenics from the turn of the century to the baby boom /

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,...

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主要作者: Kline, Wendy, 1968-
格式: Licensed eBooks
語言:英语
出版: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001.
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書本目錄:
  • List of illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Motherhood, morality, and the moron : the emergence of eugenics in America
  • From segregation to sterilization : Changing approaches to the problem of female sexuality
  • Sterilization without unsexing : eugenics and the politics of reproduction
  • New Deal for the child : Ann Cooper Hewitt and sterilization in the 1930s
  • Marriage is not complete without children : positive eugenics, 1930-1960
  • Epilogue : Building a better family.