Building a Better Race Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom

Name: Building a Better Race Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom
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ISBN: 9780520246744

ISBN-10: 0520246748

ISBN-13: 9780520246744

Edition: 2001

Authors: Wendy Kline

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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. Its appeal to social conscience and shared desires to strengthen the family and civilization sparked widespread public as well as scientific interest. Kline traces this growing public interest by looking at a variety of sources, including the astonishing "morality masque" that climaxed the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition; the nationwide…

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List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/21/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 233
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.748

Wendy Kline is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati.



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



A 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


Notes


Selected Bibliography