Building a better race : gender, sexuality, and eugenics from the turn of the century to the baby boom /
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 eugenics could seem a viable solution to problems of moral disorder and sexuality, especially female sexuality,...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2001.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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 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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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 218 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-207) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780520939318 052093931X 9780520225022 0520225023 |