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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,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kline, Wendy, 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xv, 218 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-207) and index.
ISBN:9780520939318
052093931X
9780520225022
0520225023