Eugenic design : streamlining America in the 1930s / Christina Cogdell

Publication | Library Call Number: HQ755.5.U5 C64 2004

Format: Book
Author/Creator: Cogdell, Christina.
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2004
Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-312) and index
Language: English
External Link: Table of contents

Physical Description: xvii, 328 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Contents: Controlling evolution
Products or bodies? : streamline design and eugenics as applied biology
Progenitors of the future : popularizing streamlining and eugenics during the 1930s
"Flow is the word" : biological efficiency and streamline design
Race hygiene, product hygiene : curing disease through sterilization
Future perfect? : the elusive "ideal type"
Pseudoscience? Pseudostyle?
ISBN: 0812238249
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-312) and index.
Subjects: Eugenics--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.
Design--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.
Aerodynamics--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.
Industrial design--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.
Genetics--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.
United States--Civilization--1918-1945.
United States--Race relations.
Racism--United States--History--20th century.
United States--Social conditions--1933-1945.
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