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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.

Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, c2001.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  363.92 K685b 2001    ---  Available
Description xv, 218 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-207) and index.
Contents 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.
Subject Eugenics -- United States -- History.
United States -- Moral conditions.
ISBN 0520225023 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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