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1 online resource (x, 406 pages) |
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Introduction / Susan Currell -- A new deal for the child : Ann Cooper Hewitt and sterilization in the 1930s / Wendy Kline -- Eugenic decline and recovery in self-improvement literature of the thirties / Susan Currell -- "Drilling eugenics into people's minds" : expertise, public opinion, and biopolitics in Alexis Carrel's Man, the unknown / Andrés H. Reggiani -- "Explaining sexual life to your daughter" : gender and eugenic education in the United States during the 1930s / Michael A. Rembis -- Defending Jeeter : conservative arguments against eugenics in the Depression era South / Betsy L. Nies -- Poor whites and the Federal Writers' Project : the rhetoric of eugenics in the southern life histories / Stephen Fender -- The descent of Yoknapatawpha : eugenics and the origins of Faulkner's world / Barbara E. Ladner -- The American Adonis : a natural history of the "average American" (man), 1921-32 / Mary K. Coffey -- Smooth flow : biological efficiency and streamline design / Christina Cogdell -- Apes, men, and teeth : Earnest A. Hooton and eugenic decay / Nicole Rafter -- Classical bodies versus the criminal carnival : eugenics ideology in 1930s popular art / Kerry Soper -- Scientific selection on the silver screen : madcap eugenics in College holiday / Karen A. Keely -- Monsters in the bed : the horror-film eugenics of Dracula and Frankenstein / Angela Marie Smith -- The Nazi eugenics exhibit in the United States, 1934-43 / Robert Rydell, Christina Cogdell, and Mark Largent |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Eugenics -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Eugenics -- Social aspects -- United States
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Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Eugenics in literature.
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Eugenics in motion pictures.
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Culture in motion pictures.
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Mass media.
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Population genetics.
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Natural selection.
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Social history.
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Eugenics -- history
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History, 20th Century
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Mass Media
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Genetics, Population
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Selection, Genetic
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Social Conditions
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Socioeconomic Factors
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Communications Media
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mass media.
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social history.
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Social history.
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Population genetics.
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Natural selection.
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Mass media.
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Culture in motion pictures.
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Eugenics.
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Eugenics in literature.
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Eugenics in motion pictures.
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Eugenics -- Social aspects.
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Popular culture.
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Massenkultur
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Eugenik Motiv
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United States -- History -- 1919-1933.
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United States -- History -- 1933-1945.
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United States |
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United States.
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USA
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Currell, Susan
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Cogdell, Christina
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| LC no. |
2006017473 |
| ISBN |
0821442066 |
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9780821442067 |
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