Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom Paperback / softback - 2005
by Wendy Kline
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- Title Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom
- Author Wendy Kline
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Condition New
- Pages 233
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 2005-11-21
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # A9780520246744
- ISBN 9780520246744 / 0520246748
- Weight 0.74 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6.1 x 0.61 in (22.86 x 15.49 x 1.55 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001027246
- Dewey Decimal Code 363.92
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"Building a Better Race powerfully demonstrates the centrality of eugenics during the first half of the twentieth century. Kline persuasively uncovers eugenics' unexpected centrality to modern assumptions about marriage, the family, and morality, even as late as the 1950s. The book is full of surprising connections and stories, and provides crucial new perspectives illuminating the history of eugenics, gender and normative twentieth-century sexuality."--Gail Bederman, author of Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the US, 1880-1917
"A strikingly fresh approach to eugenics.... Kline's work places eugenicists squarely at the center of modern reevaluations of females sexuality, sexual morality in general, changing gender roles, and modernizing family ideology. She insists that eugenic ideas had more power and were less marginal in public discourse than other historians have indicated."--Regina Morantz-Sanchez, author of Conduct Unbecoming a Woman: Medicine on Trial in Turn-of-the-Century Brooklyn
"A strikingly fresh approach to eugenics.... Kline's work places eugenicists squarely at the center of modern reevaluations of females sexuality, sexual morality in general, changing gender roles, and modernizing family ideology. She insists that eugenic ideas had more power and were less marginal in public discourse than other historians have indicated."--Regina Morantz-Sanchez, author of Conduct Unbecoming a Woman: Medicine on Trial in Turn-of-the-Century Brooklyn
