Building a better race : gender, sexuality, and eugenics from the turn of the century to the baby boom / Wendy Kline.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kline, Wendy, 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eugenics--United States--History.

Eugenics.

United States--Moral conditions.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. Motherhood, Morality, and the "Moron": The Emergence of Eugenics in America; 2. From Segregation to Sterilization: Changing Approaches to the Problem of Female Sexuality; 3. "Sterilization without Unsexing": Eugenics and the Politics of Reproduction; 4. A New Deal for the Child: Ann Cooper Hewitt and Sterilization in the 1930's; 5. "Marriage Is Not Complete without Children": Positive Eugenics, 1930-1960; Epilogue: Building a Better Family; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-207) and index.

ISBN:

0-520-93931-X

1-59734-514-8

OCLC:

475931679