Growing a race : Nellie L. McClung and the fiction of eugenic feminism /
Devereux, Cecily Margaret,1963-
Montreal ; Ithaca [N.Y.] : McGill-Queen's University Press,
c2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-169) and index.
Changing perspectives of maternal feminism: reconsidering the new woman and the mother of the race -- "Motherhood on the eugenic basis": how the anti-feminist principles of selective breeding became "one with the woman question" -- Locating McClung's eugenic feminism: didactic fiction and racial education -- "Finger-posts on the way to right living": mothering the prairies -- Pearlie Watson and eugenic instruction in the Watson trilogy: How to be a maternal Messiah of the New World -- "The great white plague" in "The last best West": tuberculosis, temperance, and woman suffrage in Purple springs -- "In a Chinese restaurant, Working at night": Painted fires, white slavery, and the protection of the imperial mother -- Re-forming "Indianness": the eugenic politics of assimilation -- "Called to [the] mission": interpellating métis mothers in "Red and white" and "Babette".
McClung, Nellie L., 1873-1951
Eugenics in literature.
Feminism in literature.