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Author Kline, Wendy, 1968-

Title Building a better race : gender, sexuality, and eugenics from the turn of the century to the baby boom / Wendy Kline
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 218 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-207) and index
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld gnd
Subject Eugenics -- United States -- History
Social values.
Gender identity.
Women's rights.
African Americans.
Nuclear families.
Families.
People with mental disabilities.
Politics, Practical.
Mentally ill women.
Eugenics -- history
Morals
Social Values
Nuclear Family
Gender Identity
Sexuality
Women's Rights
Black or African American
Family
Persons with Mental Disabilities
Mentally Ill Persons
Politics
Sterilization, Involuntary -- legislation & jurisprudence
Sterilization, Reproductive -- history
sex role.
African American.
mentally handicapped.
politics.
mentally ill.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
Women's rights
Social values
Politics, Practical
People with mental disabilities
Nuclear families
Gender identity
Families
African Americans
Eugenics
Moral conditions
Eugenik
Geschlechterverhältnis
Rassenpolitik
Eugenetica.
Ethische aspecten.
Eugénisme -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
États-Unis -- Conditions morales.
Sexualité -- États-Unis -- 1945-....
Famille -- Sociologie -- États-Unis.
SUBJECT United States -- Moral conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140383
United States
Subject United States
USA
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780520939318
052093931X
9780520225022
0520225023