TY - GEN T1 - Fixing the poor : eugenic sterilization and child welfare in the twentieth century A1 - Ladd-Taylor, Molly, 1955- LA - English PP - Baltimore PB - Johns Hopkins University Press YR - 2017 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1015372392 AB - Between 1907 and 1937, thirty-two states legalized the sterilization of more than 63,000 Americans. In Fixing the Poor, Molly Ladd-Taylor tells the story of these state-run eugenic sterilization programs. She focuses on one such program in Minnesota, where surgical sterilization was legally voluntary and administered within a progressive child welfare system. Tracing Minnesota's eugenics program from its conceptual origins in the 1880s to its official end in the 1970s, Ladd-Taylor argues that state sterilization policies reflected a wider variety of worldviews and political agendas than previously understood. She describes how, after 1920, people endorsed sterilization and its alternative, institutionalization, as the best way to aid dependent children without helping the "undeserving" poor. She also sheds new light on how the policy gained acceptance and why coerced sterilizations persisted long after eugenics lost its prestige. In Ladd-Taylor's provocative study, eugenic sterilization appears less like a deliberate effort to improve the gene pool than a complicated but sadly familiar tale of troubled families, fiscal and administrative politics, and deep-felt cultural attitudes about disability, dependency, sexuality, and gender. Drawing on institutional and medical records, court cases, newspapers, and professional journals, Ladd-Taylor reconstructs the tragic stories of the welfare-dependent, sexually delinquent, and disabled people who were labeled feebleminded and targeted for sterilization OP - 275 CN - HV4989 .L24 2017eb SN - 9781421423739 SN - 1421423731 SN - 9781421423722 SN - 1421423723 KW - Involuntary sterilization : United States : History : 20th century. KW - Sterilization (Birth control) : United States : History : 20th century. KW - Eugenics : United States : History : 20th century. KW - Mentally ill : Government policy : United States : 20th century. KW - Poor : Government policy : United States : 20th century. KW - Sterilization, Involuntary : history KW - History, 20th Century KW - Human Rights Abuses : history KW - Vulnerable Populations KW - Eugenics : history KW - Intellectual Disability : history KW - Persons with Intellectual Disabilities : history. KW - Minnesota KW - Stérilisation eugénique : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Stérilisation (Régulation des naissances) : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Eugénisme : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Personnes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale : Politique gouvernementale : États-Unis : 20e siècle. KW - Pauvres : Politique gouvernementale : États-Unis : 20e siècle. KW - Médecine : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS : Infrastructure. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : General. KW - Eugenics KW - Involuntary sterilization KW - Mentally ill : Government policy KW - Poor : Government policy KW - Sterilization (Birth control) KW - United States KW - Eugenik KW - Fürsorge KW - Geistige Behinderung KW - Zwangssterilisation KW - USA KW - 1900-1999 KW - History ER -