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Paperback / softback. New. 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.
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Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom Paperback - 2005
by Wendy Kline
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In 1915, despite the onset of World War 1 and the lingering effects of the 1906 earthquake, San Francisco hosted the Panama Pacific International Exposition.
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"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
"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
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- Title Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom
- Author Wendy Kline
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Pages 233
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 2005-11-21
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780520246744 / 0520246748
- Weight 0.74 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6.1 x 0.61 in (22.86 x 15.49 x 1.55 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001027246
- Dewey Decimal Code 363.92
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