Overview
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2006]
©2006 - Locale
- United States
- Contents
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Introduction / Susan Currell
A 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 / Andrés 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
The descent of Yoknapatawpha : eugenics and the origins of Faulkner's world / Barbara E. Ladner
The 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
The Nazi eugenics exhibit in the United States, 1934-43 / Robert Rydell, Christina Cogdell, and Mark Largent. - Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Susan Currell -- A 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 / Andrés 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 -- The descent of Yoknapatawpha : eugenics and the origins of Faulkner's world / Barbara E. Ladner -- The 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 -- The Nazi eugenics exhibit in the United States, 1934-43 / Robert Rydell, Christina Cogdell, and Mark Largent.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 082141691X
9780821416914
0821416928
9780821416921 - Physical Description
- x, 406 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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