Cargando…

Conceiving the future : pronatalism, reproduction, and the family in the United States, 1890-1938 /

Through nostalgic idealisations of motherhood, family, and the home, influential leaders in early twentieth-century America constructed and legitimated a range of reforms that promoted human reproduction. This book looks closely at the ideologies of five influential American figures: Mary Elizabeth...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lovett, Laura L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2007.
Colección:Gender & American culture.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Nostalgia, modernism, and the family ideal
  • New occasions teach new duties : Mary Elizabeth Lease's maternalist agenda
  • Reclaiming the home : George H. Maxwell and the homecroft movement
  • The political economy of sex : Edward A. Ross and race suicide
  • Men as trees walking : Theodore Roosevelt and the conservation of the race
  • Fitter families for future firesides : Florence Sherbon and popular eugenics
  • American pronatalism.