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 …

This book is the first comprehensive analysis of eugenics in North America focused on the
second half of the twentieth century. Based on new research, Randall Hansen and …

" With an emphasis on the American West, Eugenic Nation explores the long and unsettled
history of eugenics in the United States. This expanded second edition includes shocking …

In 1883, Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, coined the word" eugenics" to express
his dream of perfecting the human race by applying the laws of genetic heredity. Adapting …

Eugenic thought and practice swept the world from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth
century in a remarkable transnational phenomenon that informed social and scientific policy …

EUGENICS WAS A FUNDAMENTAL ASPECT of some of the most important cultural and
social movements of the twentieth century, intimately linked to ideologies of" race," nation …

In the Name of Eugenics traces the history of the eugenics movement in the United States
and Britain, beginning in the nineteenth century and continuing up to the mid-1980s and …

In the first book to explore the theory and practice of eugenics in the American South,
Edward Larson shows how the quest for" strong bloodlines" expressed itself in specific state …

Traces the history of eugenics ideology in the United States and its ongoing presence in
contemporary life. The Nazis may have given eugenics its negative connotations, but the …

The 1960s revolutionized American contraceptive practice. Diaphragms, jellies, and
condoms with high failure rates gave way to newer choices of the Pill, IUD, and sterilization …