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Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom
Wendy Kline
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Description for Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 233 pages, 7 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 378.
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. Its appeal to social conscience and shared desires to strengthen the family and civilization sparked widespread public as well as scientific interest. Kline traces this growing public interest by looking at a variety of sources, including the astonishing "morality masque" that climaxed the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition; the nationwide correspondence ... Read more
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. Its appeal to social conscience and shared desires to strengthen the family and civilization sparked widespread public as well as scientific interest. Kline traces this growing public interest by looking at a variety of sources, including the astonishing "morality masque" that climaxed the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition; the nationwide correspondence ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
233
Condition
New
Number of Pages
233
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520246744
SKU
V9780520246744
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About Wendy Kline
Wendy Kline is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati.
Reviews for Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom
"Concise and provocative.... Kline demonstrates how eugenicists refurbished Victorian morality, transforming it into a selfconsciously modern notion of 'reproductive morality.'... Kline also establishes the continuity between early, racist eugenic ideas and the pronatalist rhetoric that survives today - further debunking the myth that American eugenics died after the revelations of the Nazi Holocaust.... This is an important book for historians ... Read more