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Building a better race : gender, sexuality, and eugenics from the turn of the century to the baby boom
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- Creator
- Wendy Kline
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2001]
- ©2001
- Physical Details
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- xv, 218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781597345149, 1597345148, 9780520939318, 052093931X, 9780520225022, 0520225023
- OCLC
- ocm46321001, ocm55889694, ocn475931679
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-207) and index.
- 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
Subjects
- Eugenics -- United States -- History.
- Eugenics -- history -- United States.
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- Gender Identity -- United States.
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- Sexuality -- United States.
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- Women's Rights -- United States.
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- Sterilization, Reproductive -- history -- United States.
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- Morals -- United States.
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- United States -- Moral conditions.