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national efficiency and American mass culture in the 1930s

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Popular eugenics: national efficiency and American mass culture in the 1930s
2007, Ohio University Press
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Popular Eugenics: National Efficiency and American Mass Culture in the 1930s
November 21, 2006, Ohio University Press
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2006, Ohio University Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction / Susan Currell
A new deal for the child : Ann Cooper Hewitt and sterilization in the 1930s / Wendy Kline
Eugenic decline and recovery in self-improvement literature of the thirties / Susan Currell
"Drilling eugenics into people's minds" : expertise, public opinion, and biopolitics in Alexis Carrel's Man, the unknown / Andrés H. Reggiani
"Explaining sexual life to your daughter" : gender and eugenic education in the United States during the 1930s / Michael A. Rembis
Defending Jeeter : conservative arguments against eugenics in the Depression era South / Betsy L. Nies
Poor whites and the Federal Writers' Project : the rhetoric of eugenics in the southern life histories / Stephen Fender
The descent of Yoknapatawpha : eugenics and the origins of Faulkner's world / Barbara E. Ladner
The American Adonis : a natural history of the "average American" (man), 1921-32 / Mary K. Coffey
Smooth flow : biological efficiency and streamline design / Christina Cogdell
Apes, men, and teeth : Earnest A. Hooton and eugenic decay / Nicole Rafter
Classical bodies versus the criminal carnival : eugenics ideology in 1930s popular art / Kerry Soper
Scientific selection on the silver screen : madcap eugenics in College holiday / Karen A. Keely
Monsters in the bed : the horror-film eugenics of Dracula and Frankenstein / Angela Marie Smith
The Nazi eugenics exhibit in the United States, 1934-43 / Robert Rydell, Christina Cogdell, and Mark Largent.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
363.9/2097309043
Library of Congress
HQ755.5.U5 P66 2006, HQ755.5.U5P66 2006

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 406 p. :
Number of pages
406

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL17865069M
ISBN 10
082141691X, 0821416928
ISBN 13
9780821416914, 9780821416921
LCCN
2006017473
OCLC/WorldCat
1069468810
Goodreads
6836703
5312848

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