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Popular eugenics : national efficiency and American mass culture in the 1930s /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens, Ohio :
Ohio University Press,
©2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.