Fixing the poor : eugenic sterilization and child welfare in the twentieth century /

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 voluntar...

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主要作者: Ladd-Taylor, Molly, 1955- (Author)
格式: Licensed eBooks
語言:英语
出版: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.
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書本目錄:
  • The feebleminded menace and the innocent child
  • Two roads to sterilization
  • Who was feebleminded?
  • The price of freedom
  • Sterilization and welfare in depression and war
  • From fixing the poor to fixing the system?