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Building a Better Race - Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom (Paperback, New ed)
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Building a Better Race - Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom (Paperback, New ed)
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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. Its appeal to social conscience and shared
desires to strengthen the family and civilization sparked
widespread public as well as scientific interest. Kline traces this
growing public interest by looking at a variety of sources,
including the astonishing "morality masque" that climaxed the 1915
Panama Pacific International Exposition; the nationwide
correspondence of the influential Human Betterment Foundation in
Pasadena, California; the medical and patient records of a "model"
state institution that sterilized thousands of allegedly
feebleminded women in California between 1900 and 1960; the
surprising political and popular support for sterilization that
survived initial interest in, and then disassociation from, Nazi
eugenics policies; and a widely publicized court case in 1936
involving the sterilization of a wealthy young woman deemed
unworthy by her mother of having children. Kline's engaging account
reflects the shift from "negative eugenics" (preventing procreation
of the "unfit") to "positive eugenics," which encouraged
procreation of the "fit," and it reveals that the "golden age" of
eugenics actually occurred long after most historians claim the
movement had vanished. The middle-class "passion for parenthood" in
the '50s had its roots, she finds, in the positive eugenics
campaign of the '30s and '40s. Many issues that originated in the
eugenics movement remain controversial today, such as the use of IQ
testing, the medical ethics of sterilization, the moral and legal
implications of cloning and genetic screening, and even the debate
on family values
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