LEADER 03480cam a22004814a 4500001 138887 005 20240621204228.0 008 060525t20062006ohua b s001 0deng 010 2006017473 020 082141691X |qhardcover |qalkaline paper 020 9780821416914 |qhardcover |qalkaline paper 020 0821416928 |qpaperback |qalkaline paper 020 9780821416921 |qpaperback |qalkaline paper 035 (OCoLC)ocm69680041 035 138887 042 pcc 043 n-us--- 049 LHMA 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dBAKER |dC#P |dYDX |dBTCTA |dYDXCP |dUBY |dNLM |dPUL |dLHM 050 00 HQ755.5.U5 |bP66 2006 245 00 Popular eugenics : |bnational efficiency and American mass culture in the 1930s / |cedited by Susan Currell and Christina Cogdell. 264 1 Athens, Ohio : |bOhio University Press, |c[2006] 264 4 |c©2006 300 x, 406 pages : |billustrations ; |c24 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 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. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 Eugenics |zUnited States |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Eugenics |xSocial aspects |zUnited States. 650 0 Popular culture |zUnited States |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Eugenics in literature. 650 0 Eugenics in motion pictures. 651 0 United States |xHistory |y1919-1933. 651 0 United States |xHistory |y1933-1945. 700 1 Currell, Susan. 700 1 Cogdell, Christina. 856 42 |3Table of contents only |uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0614/2006017473.html 856 42 |3Contributor biographical information |uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0666/2006017473-b.html 856 42 |3Publisher description |uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0666/2006017473-d.html 852 0 |bstacks |hHQ755.5.U5 |iP66 2006