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Sterilized by the State - Eugenics, Race, and the Population Scare in Twentieth-Century North America (Hardcover, New)
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Sterilized by the State - Eugenics, Race, and the Population Scare in Twentieth-Century North America (Hardcover, New)
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This book is the first comprehensive analysis of eugenics in North
America focused on the second half of the twentieth century. Based
on new research, Randall Hansen and Desmond King show why eugenic
sterilization policies persisted after the 1940s in the United
States and Canada. Through extensive archival research, King and
Hansen show how both superintendents at homes for the
'feebleminded' and pro-sterilization advocates repositioned
themselves after 1945 to avoid the taint of Nazi eugenics. Drawing
on interviews with victims of sterilization and primary documents,
this book traces the post-1940s development of eugenic policy and
shows that both eugenic arguments and committed eugenicists
informed population, welfare, and birth control policy in postwar
America. In providing revisionist histories of the choice movement,
the anti-population growth movement, and the Great Society
programs, this book contributes to public policy and political and
intellectual history.
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