| Description |
x, 406 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Susan Currell -- 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 / Andres 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 -- Descent of Yoknapatawpha : eugenics and the origins of Faulkner's world / Barbara E. Ladner -- 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 -- Nazi eugenics exhibit in the United States, 1934-43 / Robert Rydell, Christina Cogdell, and Mark Largent. |
| Subject |
Eugenics -- Social aspects.
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Eugenics -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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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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United States -- History -- 1919-1933.
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United States -- History -- 1933-1945.
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| Added Author |
Currell, Susan.
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Cogdell, Christina.
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| ISBN |
0821416928 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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082141691X (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9780821416914 |
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9780821416921 |
| Standard No. |
9780821416914 |
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9780821416921 |
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