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Informationen zum Autor Wendy Kline the Dema G. Seelye Chair in the History of Medicine in the Department of History at Perdue University. She is the author of Bodies of Knowledge: Sexuality! Reproduction! and Women’s Health in the Second Wave . Klappentext " Building a Better Race powerfully demonstrates the centrality of eugenics during the first half of the twentieth century. Kline persuasively uncovers eugenics' unexpected centrality to modern assumptions about marriage! the family! and morality! even as late as the 1950s. The book is full of surprising connections and stories! and provides crucial new perspectives illuminating the history of eugenics! gender and normative twentieth-century sexuality."-Gail Bederman! author of Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the US! 1880-1917 "A strikingly fresh approach to eugenics.... Kline's work places eugenicists squarely at the center of modern reevaluations of females sexuality! sexual morality in general! changing gender roles! and modernizing family ideology. She insists that eugenic ideas had more power and were less marginal in public discourse than other historians have indicated."-Regina Morantz-Sanchez! author of Conduct Unbecoming a Woman: Medicine on Trial in Turn-of-the-Century Brooklyn Zusammenfassung Presents the cultural history of eugenics in America that emphasizes the movement's central, continuing interaction with popular notions of gender and morality. This book 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 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 1930s 5. "Marriage Is Not Complete without Children": Positive Eugenics! 1930-1960 Epilogue: Building a Better Family Notes Selected Bibliography Index ...
